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THE 

SEVENTH SEAL 



BY 

JEANETTE AGNES 



And when he had opened the seventh 
seal, there was silence in heaven about 
the space of half an hour. 

Revelation 8 : i. 




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DEDICATED 

To All Men Everywhere 



Have we not all one Father? 
Hath not one God created us ? 
Malachi 2:10. 



PREFACE 

I deplore any suggestion of cowardice which 
may attach to my incomplete signature, but 
for reasons which I may not state, it is fitting 
that this be published under my given names 
only. 

Jeanette Agnes. 



CONTENTS 

chapter page 

Introduction 9 

I. What Shall We Say of Matter?. . 13 

II. The Lost Word 20 

III. " Things Which Have Been Kept 

Secret From the Foundation of 
the World." Matt. 13-35 25 

IV. Search the Scriptures 37 

V. The Fire of the Lord 74 

VI. A Glance at Fundamentals 122 

VII. The Way of Attainment 140 



INTRODUCTION 

The object cf this brief treatise is to explain 
the spiritual significance of the Levitical Law 
in connection with the Holy of Holies of the 
Tabernacle, and its relation to the truth that 
souls are created with distinct male and 
female capacities and powers: to show that 
the soul may be at rest and the individual 
ready for the development of powers which 
transcend what are termed human possibili- 
ties when the man and woman possessing the 
dual expressions of the same soul have been 
united in the one perfect love relation : That 
it is possible when spiritual discernment has 
been sufficiently developed, to know without 
error the complement of one's own soul : that 
the Bible teaches that the law of the creative 
life energy, operating through the physical 
sex of soul complements, is, through the 
power of its spiritual reality, the way of the 
refinement and spiritualization of the matter 
of which our bodies are composed — the way 
of emancipation from want, sickness, and all 
imperfections of the human race; in truth, 
the way of eternal life without the body's 
passing through what we call death: that 



INTRODUCTION 

concerning this is the mystery — the hidden 
power in the meaning of the Holy Name — 
the Lost Word which has been sought through 
the ages: that both prevailing beliefs in 
regard to matter must be altered before we 
can be liberated from the bondage of materi- 
ality; and briefly to indicate the kind of 
spiritual development necessary thus to at- 
tain to the Kingdom. 

The statements made herein as truth, it is 
needless to say, are my convictions of truth, 
founded upon experience, thought, study, or 
the testimony within me of the Spirit of 
Truth Itself, which Jesus promised should be 
given to lead us into all truth. 

I readily grant that the claims made are 
extraordinary, and I have reason to believe 
there may be noble souls who, upon first 
impression, will think my message not a 
worthy one; but being convinced beyond all 
doubt that these are the significant facts 
underlying Biblical symbol and allegory, and 
realizing the inestimable value in every way 
to the human family of a right understanding 
of God's plan for happiness, and the con- 
tinuity of life, and the reason why these 
never can be found until men seek the Lord 

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with the whole heart, you may appreciate 
something of the urge which has impelled me 
to speak; indeed, which will grant me no 
rest until I have spoken, even at the risk of 
any and all kinds of criticism in regard to 
my sanity, my motives and my personal 
character; and I would ask of every reader, 
if these be not worthy objects which I thus 
wish to further, what then shall we say con- 
stitutes worth? 

Nor can I heed the admonitions, though 
all so kindly meant, of any who would stay 
me from my task, even though I should incur 
the disrespect of those from whom respect 
would be most valued, for the dreariest out- 
look can in no wise excuse one for shirking 
what he clearly sees to be his duty and op- 
portunity for service. 

Know then, my friends, when in "The 
Way of Attainment" I urge you always to 
follow the highest light you have — know then 
where it may lead you; know what deter- 
mination to do the right under any and all 
circumstances it may demand of you. But 
follow it, alone if need be, "O'er moor and 
fen, o'er crag and torrent, till the night is 
gone." There is no other way. 

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CHAPTER I 
What Shall We Say of Matter? 

AS the truth set forth in the following pages 
is concerned with the fact that not only 
,is matter real, but that contrary to accepted 
belief, it is a part of God Himself, I wish to 
direct attention briefly to this subject at the 
outset. 

Both of the current beliefs, on the one 
hand that matter is nothing; on the other 
hand, that it is a thing apart from God, lead 
to confusion and errors in living, because of 
the fact that they give rise to the belief that 
some part of our being may exist apart from 
a spiritual reality. 

We hear it commonly said that God ani- 
mates matter, that God is in matter, but 
this presupposes that God and matter are 
two wholly different things. I say matter is 
a part of God — God's body, so to speak, for 
if matter is no part of God, then God is not 
all; hence not God. It is evident that 
matter is essential as a medium through 

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which God may manifest his life. If matter 
did not exist, there could be no expression of 
God's life; but if God needs matter through 
which to manifest his life, and must go out- 
side of Himself to have it supplied from some 
other source, then God is not complete; He 
must acknowledge obligations to another 
power; therefore He would not be God. 
That would be as if God had the executive 
ability to organize and conduct a business, 
but did not have the necessary capital to 
invest, and must seek a partner. I speak 
neither facetiously nor irreverently. The 
cases are parallel. 

Because all forms of matter are reducible 
to one universal substance, and into such 
form as to be invisible to the physical eye, 
does not mean that matter can be destroyed, 
as some are so ready to state, and that in the 
name of science. When we place a piece of 
ice in a pan, and apply sufficient heat to 
turn it first to water and eventually to vapor 
w r hich will float over our heads, we have not 
destroyed the matter of which the ice was 
composed, although we have transformed this 
substance from a state of density in which 
it was heavier than air, and by the law of 

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gravitation would fall to the floor if released 
from the hand, to a rarified state in which 
it was lighter than air and would rise instead 
of fall. 

No physicist would think of saying that 
when a piece of iron has been reduced to the 
gaseous state, the material of which the metal 
was composed before the law of molecular 
attraction was overcome by heat, has been 
destroyed; and it is no more reasonable for 
him to say that matter can be destroyed 
because it can be transformed into a state of 
rarity and vibratory activity beyond the 
domain of physical science alone to detect 
and study. 

If perchance the ultra-idealist, who will tell 
you that matter is not real, but merely a 
mode of thinking, has in mind the wonderful 
facts of the transformation of matter, he 
should make this clear, for even reducing it 
to a point of strain between the negative and 
positive particles of electricity does not make 
it unreal. If we contend that a thing is 
unreal merely because we cannot see it in 
all its manifestations, we may as well say 
Spirit is unreal. No one will dispute the 
fact that organized forms of matter are not 

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permanent, but when we speak of matter, 
we rightly mean the atom or electron, or the 
infinitesimal divisions into which this may 
yet be said to be divided. 

All this apparently unintelligent substance 
serves us, and is a certain manifestation of 
God. Our clothes, our food, our houses, the 
air we breathe and the earth under our feet 
is God, as well as our mind and Spirit, and 
our emotions of love and joy. And thus it 
becomes literally true that "in Him we live 
and move and have our being/ ' It is not 
sufficient to say that God is in matter. It is 
either a question of God and matter, co- 
existent, eternal, or God as matter. If it 
is a case of God and matter, God is not all. 
There is no evading this fact for anyone who 
is willing to give the truth right of way 
against preconceived ideas. Of course to 
those who have nestled in some form of 
belief from which they would not be dis- 
turbed at any cost, and hence are not willing 
to meet the issue squarely with themselves, 
there is as yet no means of appeal, but time 
and experience, though it should require an- 
other incarnation to accomplish it, will result 
in the necessary mental honesty. 

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I grant this view of matter is one for which 
we have not the customary proof or conclusive 
form of statement, yet which we know by 
this process of reasoning must be true; as 
for instance, the value of the decimal state- 
ment of the quotient of 10 divided by 3. 
By any rule of mathematics with which we 
are now familiar, the quotient will be 3.3333 
on into infinity. We cannot arrive at an 
exact statement of the value in this form. 
Nevertheless we know by a certain course of 
reasoning that the value is §. And so I say 
there are some things which, from the very 
nature of the case, we know to be true, al- 
though we may not be able to demonstrate 
the fact according to customary methods. 
Even yet the existence of ether is not a 
demonstrated fact. I say this on the authority 
of one of the prominent scientists of our 
country. He told me they simply assume 
that such a medium exists, because an in- 
telligent and satisfactory explanation of the 
phenomena of nature requires that such a 
medium should exist. This, then, is a per- 
fectly logical conclusion to which no one 
need object, and while it is obliged to acknowl- 
edge kinship to the processes of faith and 

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intuition (however disconcerting this may be 
to the materialistic scientist), it also satisfies 
our reason. 

The foregoing arithmetical analogy was 
employed by the scientist of whom I speak, 
in this same conversation, but it applies with 
as much force to the belief that matter is one 
manifestation of the Absolute as it does to 
the belief in the existence of ether, which 
scientists find themselves obliged to accept 
though not demonstrated by so-called scien- 
tific methods. Therefore, I say in words the 
most untaught may understand, and the 
erudite cannot gainsay — Matter is a part of 
God because there is nothing else for it to be 
if God is all. The following excerpt from a 
lecture on "The Ether and Its Functions", 
by Sir Oliver Lodge, makes it easier, I think, 
to formulate a conception of how this might 
be true, and brings us to the threshold of the 
full realization : 

"I have endeavored to introduce to you 
the simplest conception of the material uni- 
verse which has yet occurred to man — that 
is of one universal substance perfectly homo- 
geneous and continuous and simple of struc- 
ture, extending to the farthest limits of space 

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of which we have any knowledge, existing 
equally everywhere, some portions either at 
rest or in simple, irrational motion, trans- 
mitting the undulations which we call light; 
other portions in rotational motion— in vor- 
tices, that is, and differentiated permanently 
from the rest of the medium by reason of this 
motion. These whirling portions constitute 
what we call matter ; their motion gives them 
rigidity, and of them our bodies and all 
other bodies are built up — one continuous 
substance filling all space, which can vibrate 
as light, which can be sheared off into positive 
and negative electricity, which in whirls con- 
stitutes matter, and which transmits by con- 
tinuity and not by impact every action and 
reaction of which matter is capable." 

We believe that God is all, but we cannot 
harmonize this belief with evident fact, and 
still ignore the existence of matter — the very 
thing we find necessary for the expression of 
the life of God — but rather by including it 
with the power and usefulness belonging to 
it, in God. And since this is true, it should 
be lifted up and spiritualized, as we shall see 
more clearly from the succeeding chapters. 



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CHAPTER II 
The Lost Word 

IN explaining the hidden meaning of the 
Holy Name, I shall quote at some length 
from "Bible Mystery and Bible Meaning", 
by the late Judge T. Troward, for to him we 
are indebted for the clue to the secret power 
of the Lost Word. To me it was given to 
know the interpretation of the mystery of 
the Holy of Holies of the Tabernacle, but I 
should not have known that this coincided 
with the secret power of the Holy Name 
except for the author's accurate work in 
interpreting the meaning of the Hebrew 
letters composing the word "YEVE" 
(JEHOVAH). 

"A point that can hardly fail to strike the 
Bible student is the frequency with which we 
are directed to the Name of the Lord, as the 
source of strength and protection, instead of 
to God Himself, and the steady uniformity 
of this practice, both in the Old and New 
Testaments, clearly indicates the intention 

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to put us upon some special line of inquiry 
with regard to the Sacred Name. Not only 
is this suggested by the frequency of the 
expression, but the Bible gives a very remark- 
able instance which shows that the Sacred 
Name must be considered as a formula con- 
taining a summary of all Wisdom. 

"The Master tells us that the Queen of 
' the South came to hear the wisdom of Solo- 
mon, and if we turn to I Kings X: 1, we find 
that the fame of Solomon's wisdom, which 
induced the Queen of Sheba to come to prove 
him with hard questions was * concerning 
the Name of the Lord.' This accords with 
the immemorial tradition of the Jews that 
the knowledge of the secret name of God en- 
ables him who possesses it to perform the 
most stupendous miracles. This Hidden 
Name — the ' Schem-hammaphoraseh ■ — was 
revealed, they say, to Moses and taught by 
him to Aaron and handed on by him to his 
successors ; it was the secret enshrined in the 
Holy of Holies, and was scrupulously guarded 
by the successive High Priests; it is the su- 
preme secret, and its knowledge is the 
supreme object of attainment ; thus tradition 
and Scripture alike point to 'The NAME' as 

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the source of Light and Life, and deliverance 
from all evil. 

''May we not therefore suppose that this 
must be the veiled statement of some great 
Truth ? The purpose of a name is to call up, 
by a single word, the complete idea of the 
thing named, with all those qualities and 
relations that make it what it is, instead of 
having to describe all this in detail every 
time we want to suggest the conception of it. 
The correct name of a thing thus conveys 
the idea of its whole nature, and accordingly 
the correct Name of God should, in some 
manner, be a concise statement of the Divine 
Nature as the Source of all Life, Wisdom, 
Power, and Goodness and the Origin of all 
manifested being/ ' 

To summarize the explanation which the 
author gives of the Hebrew Name of God, 
" YEVE ", which in English is "JEHOVAH ", 
he shows by successive, careful steps the 
meaning of each part of the word. This is 
found to be Essential Life and Derived Life, 
standing in the relation of masculine to femi- 
nine, Y indicating Essential Life, while the 
second part of the Name — EVE — indicates 
Derived Feminine Life. Now we see the 

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expression of this masculine and feminine 
life to be combined in one name, therefore we 
are wholly within the truth when speaking of 
the one named as TWO IN ONE. 

The author also gives a further explanation 
of the word by which God's triune nature is 
seen to be expressed, but we have long been 
familiar with the thought of the Trinity. We 
think of God as ONE and as THREE IN 
ONE, but we have not yet realized the fact 
that God is also TWO IN ONE, and herein 
lies "the mystery of God". TWO IN ONE 
may then be said to be the physical form of 
the Holy Name which expresses its general 
nature and power, and which may be passed 
from lip to lip; but its vital power — its 
spiritual reality — or let us say, its soul, as 
far transcends its physical expression as our 
Spirits transcend in glory our physical bodies, 
and may not thus be freely spoken of, but 
must be realized by each one as he is guided 
into this truth by the Spirit. 

With this light on the derivation of the 
Holy Name, which, as we shall see later, shows 
it to corroborate the revelation of the mean- 
ing of the imagery of the Tabernacle, and 
the ordinances concerning it, ascribed to 

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Moses, we now get the full force of Exodus 
34:5. "And the Lord descended in the cloud 
and stood with him there, and proclaimed the 
Name of the Lord." 

But even with this analysis of the meaning 
of the letters composing the Sacred Name, 
it remains simply a formula, and we con- 
tinually overlook its practical application, and 
the availability of its power to really accom- 
plish the miraculous results for human-kind 
without the correct solution of the symbology 
of the Tabernacle. This power is said to be 
"the secret enshrined in the Holy of Holies", 
and the way in which the NAME is in- 
separably connected with the altar, the ark 
of the covenant, the cherubims, etc., furnishes 
proof of the truth of this statement. 

The explanation of the symbology of the 
Holy of Holies and its furnishings, which 
shows wherein the power of the NAME con- 
sists, and how this power may really touch 
our lives on the three planes of our existence, 
transforming the race of men into something 
more than men, will be seen by careful, un- 
prejudiced study of the following three 
chapters. 



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CHAPTER III 

"Things Which Have Been Kept Secret 
From the Foundation of the World. " 

Matt. 13:35. 

/'The Lord is in his holy temple: let all the 
earth keep silence before him." Hab. 2:20. 



IT is a well-known fact that the Taber- 
nacle in the Wilderness and Solomon's 
Temple typified the physical body of man. 
Jesus emphasized this symbol by inverting 
it, and calling his body the Temple, and 
similar references to our physical bodies as 
the temple of God are frequent throughout 
the New Testament. But these figures have 
not been generally comprehended at their 
full value. The significance of the Holy, of 
Holies of the Tabernacle has been over- 
looked. Concerning this is "the mystery of 
God" (Rev. 10:7), "the mystery of Christ" 
(Col. 4:3), "the mystery which was kept 
secret since the world began" (Rom. 16:25), 
the things concerning which Moses gave testi- 

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mony "which were to be spoken after" 
(Heb. 3:5). 

Within the Holy of Holies we are told was 
put the ark of the covenant, or the ark of 
the testimony, whereupon was placed the 
mercy seat, which was overshadowed by the 
cherubims. The golden altar of incense was 
before the vail of the Holy of Holies. Com- 
plete accounts of the construction of the 
Tabernacle, with its laws and ordinances, are 
given in Exodus and Leviticus, but I would 
direct attention to Exodus 25:1-22 and to 
Leviticus 16:1-13, which furnish data for 
further study and comparison of references. 
Naturally the symbology could not afford an 
exact counterbalance throughout, and still 
permit the erection of a usable, material 
structure for the Tabernacle, but a thorough 
study of the references relating to this subject 
throughout all parts of the Bible clearly 
shows what a superficial glance does not 
reveal — that the truth taught by the Holy 
of Holies, its furnishings and ordinances, the 
office of the high priest, the promises con- 
nected with the ark of the covenant and 
related references is that there is but one 
true mate for each soul ; that the way out of 

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human limitation — from man to super-man — 
the way of eternal life of the body in youth 
and health, with its increasing refinement 
and ratification, is through the office of sex 
of such two individuals after their lives have 
become sufficiently spiritual by setting God 
first before their eyes, and by loving all 
humanity so much that by the natural work- 
ing of the Law of Life they are reunited in a 
love so divinely pure and strong that it sees 
naught but God in all his handiwork. 

The ark of the covenant, the mercy seat, 
the cherubims, etc., have reference to the 
female genitals; the altar of incense, the 
censer, etc. to those of the male. The 
cherubims are the labia majora: the censer 
is the phallus. The details of the analogy 
become apparent from the inter-relation. 
Aaron, the high priest, represents the male 
complement, who alone is permitted access 
to the Holy of Holies. Aaron's two sons 
(symbolical of his ideas or thoughts, hence of 
his resultant capacities or tendencies) Eleazar 
and Ithamar, who were to offer sacrifice 
continually with Aaron, typify by their 
names the qualities of pure love and spiritual 
understanding which Aaron must possess. 

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The sons of Aaron who were slain because 
they offered false fire upon the altar (Lev. 
10: 1-3) signify lack of self control, and a low 
understanding that grasps only the material 
phase of the sacrifice. These qualities must 
be slain in every man before he can become 
a high priest in this sense, which is " after 
the order of Melchizedek ,, ) who was said to 
be the priest of the Most High God long 
before there was any Jewish Liturgy in exist- 
ence. 

The very meagre reference to Melchizedek 
in the Bible makes it difficult for us to learn 
much about him, but it is recorded that he 
met Abraham when he was returning from the 
slaughter of the kings who had carried away 
Lot, and administered to him bread and 
wine, symbolical of the understanding of the 
Spirit, and of matter. We are also told that 
he was king of Salem, which is interpreted in 
the text as* 'King of Peace". While this would 
be true, this is not the first meaning of the 
word "Salem", which comes from a word 
meaning whole. Therefore we can judge that 
Melchizedek was one who possessed wholeness 
in its full significance by being in possession 
of the truth in regard to Spirit and matter, 

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and related facts. Again, in the seventh 
chapter of Hebrews we read that Melchize- 
dek's priesthood was a continual priesthood; 
that he was without " beginning of days' ' or 
"end of life", which corresponds to the truth 
with respect to the soul complement, which 
always has been and always will be the one 
to stand in the relation of high priest toward 
. its true spiritual mate. 

To those who may be inclined to treat 
lightly the idea that there exists a pomple- 
ment for every soul, let me say that this is 
no idle fancy adapted to satisfy the caprice 
of the giddy or frivolous, for one must be 
truly spiritual in his desires, and willing to 
give up anything that stands in the way of 
his finding God and doing the right before it 
is in his power to know the complement of 
his own soul, and the one of whom this is 
true will not be neglectful of duty nor incon- 
siderate of others. 

This truth is the significance of the allegory 
related in Gen. 2:18-25. The incomplete- 
ness of the man without the woman is indi- 
cated by the woman's having been formed of 
a portion of the substance of the man's body, 
which it must be admitted is a very good 

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figurative version of the biological facts re- 
ferred to in Chapter V. Thus we see the 
thought expressed is that neither is complete 
without the other, the two being required for 
an integral being. 

Again, this is plainly taught by Jesus' 
words to the Pharisees (Matt. 19 and Mark 
10), the meaning of which has been entirely 
overlooked because of a wrong interpretation 
put upon his answer to the Sadducees (Matt. 
22 and Mark 12). The Sadducees did not 
believe in the resurrection; therefore it is 
plain that their question was not asked with 
the honest purpose of securing information, 
but rather with the design to entangle Jesus 
by suggesting a situation which, as they 
thought, would necessarily arise in the event 
of a life after death, in such cases as that 
of the woman who had had seven husbands, 
which imaginary dilemma they evidently 
considered as conclusive proof that there 
could be no resurrection of the dead. But 
Jesus silenced this childish argument by let- 
ting them know that the institution of the 
cosmos is not governed by finite laws and 
customs, and told them plainly that "in 
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marriage, but are as the angels of God in 
heaven/ ' But these words, which have been 
so narrowly construed, fall far short of saying 
that no true love relation can exist or be 
formed in heaven. They were only intended 
to cover the particular aspect of the subject 
of marriage with which the question of the 
Sadducees was concerned, and their force 
'was directed to correct the impression that 
the conditions of earth must necessarily ob- 
tain in heaven, hence the plain statement 
that "in heaven they neither marry nor are 
given in marriage." But what we do have 
a right to infer from them (far from saying 
that there is no marriage in heaven) is that 
in the spiritual state existing in heaven, cere- 
monies and man-made laws are not necessary, 
but that this law of God which created them 
male and female in "the beginning of the 
creation", will adjust the true marriage. 

The probabilities are that no one of the 
seven brothers who had as wife the woman 
in question was her real husband, but that in 
heaven, provided she has mastered life's 
lessons of love sufficiently, she would be 
united with her true mate. Otherwise, she 
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off here and learn to love everyone and to 
forgive everyone before her spiritual powers 
would be sufficiently quickened for her to 
recognize her true mate. 

That souls are created male and female is 
too plain for controversy from the references 
cited in Matthew and Mark. In the account 
in Mark Jesus says, in speaking of the bill of 
divorcement, "For the hardness of your 
heart he (Moses) wrote you this precept, 
but from the beginning of the creation God 
made them male and female. For this cause 
shall a man leave his father and mother and 
cleave to his wife; and they twain shall be 
one flesh: so then they are no more twain, 
but one flesh. What therefore God hath 
joined together let not man put asunder." 

By careful reading the context shows that 
it was against the principle of the separation 
of what had been joined from the beginning of 
the creation to which Jesus particularly re- 
ferred, for while he expressed no disapproval of 
Moses' granting them the privilege of divorce 
under certain conditions, the restrictions and 
limitations of which were designed to pro- 
mote, on the whole, the highest development 
of humanity while it had not yet attained a 

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sufficiently quickened spiritual consciousness 
for it to be possible for each to know his own 
true companion, yet he says, "But from the 
beginning of the creation God made them male 
and female/ ' and implies that God joined 
particular male and female creations, for he 
adds, ''What therefore God hath joined to- 
gether let not man put asunder' ' although 
he had just previously signified his approval 
of Moses' action in allowing certain ones to 
be put asunder under the then existing state 
of enlightenment of mankind. 

Now the force of this argument certainly 
would not fit the circumstances of ordinary 
life and marriage, because we know that 
God never joined "from the beginning of the 
creation' ' any two individuals united simply 
by an accepted marriage ceremony of this or 
any other age. Legal marriage ceremonies 
are being performed daily, but how could any 
of these be said to date l 'from the beginning of 
the creation' 1 ? Hence it is plain that the 
only male and female which could have been 
joined from the beginning would be those 
whom Jesus said God joined; in other words 
— dual parts of the same soul. 

This establishes the fact that this mas- 

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culine and feminine duality in unity is true 
between souls of individuals the same as it 
is true in the nature of each soul, and as we 
see by the meaning of the Holy Name, and 
observe in all forms of life, in the nature of 
God Himself. But since souls were created 
in the image of God, every completed (re- 
deemed) soul must represent an individual- 
ized part of God, or the power of Two In 
One. Now it cannot be argued that this 
condition is wholly met in the male or 
female individual alone, else why male and 
female bodies instead of a uniform type of 
body among human beings, representing both 
elements? for our souls most certainly deter- 
mine the form of our bodies. 

Someone may say, "You have just said 
that each individual soul is masculine and 
feminine in nature; then why does not this 
satisfy the condition of a completed soul, 
created in the image of God, who is TWO 
IN ONE?" My answer is that although 
there is a measure of masculine capacity in 
woman and feminine capacity in man, these 
powers are not present in each in such pro- 
portion or manner as to constitute a com- 
pleted individual, capable alone of reproduc- 

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tion, or of perfect equilibrium (rest and 
happiness), and evolution from man to super- 
man. The feminine capacity in the soul of 
man is manifested in his body, in one par- 
ticular, in the rudimentary male breast, but 
this cannot function. On the other hand, 
we know that the female breast could not 
function except through the intervention of 
masculine capacity. Now the soul capacity 
of individual man and woman is not com- 
plete unto itself any more than the individual 
bodies, but the perfected power of a com- 
pleted soul created in the image of God — 
the power of the Two In One — rests only 
with true spiritual mates who have been 
willing to get so close to God that He has 
joined them again in eternal benediction, his 
overshadowing Spirit giving power to the 
union of their souls and bodies. 

Jesus was indeed a mediator between God 
and man in the sense of teaching man that 
God is not some power apart, to whom offer- 
ings in a temple of wood or stone should be 
made as from an individual to a God who is 
distinct and separate from himself, but that 
man's body is the temple of the Living God, 
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sooner or later to uplift all mankind to where 
they can understand the mystery of the Holy 
of Holies of this temple of the body, and offer 
acceptable sacrifices therein. 

The wisdom and efficacy" of God's plan of 
creation and redemption of mankind is thus 
clearly seen in the endowment of the spiritual 
and physical faculties of which none are 
devoid — the desire for love and companion- 
ship (completion) that is within every soul; 
and its material concomitant, the cognizance 
of the presence of the Creative Life Energy 
in the physical body, the correct under- 
standing of which will eventually, in one 
incarnation or another, cause every prodigal 
son to come to himself and say, ' ' I will arise 
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CHAPTER IV 

Search the Scriptures 

'Unto the pure all things are pure." 
Titus 1:15. 



THERE may be some who will feel after 
having studied the passages cited and 
related references that this is not sufficient 
to establish the correctness of the inter- 
pretation which I have given of the Holy of 
Holies. Of such I would kindly ask not to 
form a hasty conclusion, but reserve any 
adverse opinion until you have read not only 
all of this volume, but the Bible itself from 
Genesis to Revelation with this interpre- 
tation in mind. I believe if you are honest 
with yourself, and are not hopelessly fettered 
by literalism, you will then agree with me that 
the purpose of the Bible is not simply to 
prepare us for death, but to bring us into our 
divine heritage with all that means here and 
now; to cause us to feel one with God at 
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the paradise (not necessarily in a far away 
heaven but begun on earth made into 
heaven) which God has prepared for every 
soul when it is able to receive it by being made 
perfect in love, seeing God in all, and in this 
purity of thought putting away entirely from 
the life anything in which God may not be a 
sharer; and that the presentation of these 
truths which I am telling you in regard to 
the Holy of Holies and the Holy Name con- 
stitutes the substratum of the whole Bible. 

This is the key to the proper interpretation 
of the Old Testament (and with this the 
New Testament is inseparably connected), as 
it is evident that its ethical value consists not 
in its biography, for the most part, nor in its 
history, the high points of which are woven 
into this marvelous collection of allegories, 
employed by the Old Testament writers or 
compilers as the parables were by Jesus, but 
in the deeper truth intended to be set forth 
in this manner, and in the cry of the prophets 
in the same figurative speech for the recog- 
nition of this truth, calling attention to the 
suffering and privation of all kinds (char- 
acterized as the " wrath of God"), which 
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of knowledge of this truth, their blindness 
to the fact that God is all, and their neglect 
of the commandment: "Thou shalt have no 
other Gods before me." 

It is written as though all that is recorded 
had taken place, but the truth is that while 
much of it did indeed take place, these 
incidents were used in the grand scheme of 
presenting to an awakening world the eternal 
verities of God — a story told to children, as 
it were, to point a moral— and instead of the 
law's having passed away, it has never yet 
been understood by the world in its true 
significance. 

All this is not apparent, and we miss the 
value if we insist upon taking a literal inter- 
pretation, and disregard the fact that the 
purpose is to present in this form the simple 
truth concerning God and man and life; and 
that certain principles, capacities, qualities, 
and a record of the spiritual evolution of 
every individual and of mankind in general 
is represented by certain characters and 
incidents in their histories. We find it to be 
a repetition of the presentation of the same 
truths set forth in seeming historical record, 
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accurate history, has constituted the blind 
to its deeper meaning, because history and 
allegory are so interwoven. But when we 
get the clue to its real purpose and its 
figurative style, we can see in it so plainly 
the evidences of a Supreme Wisdom that 
gave it to an undeveloped race in the form 
of sufficient fact admixed with the Eternal 
Truth itself to keep us digging through the 
clay and gravel while our spiritual senses were 
maturing to a point where we could appre- 
ciate the value of the truth in its purity when 
the subsoil should be reached, that we can- 
not avoid the conviction that the Bible has 
been preserved for us by an Over-ruling Love 
to teach the world a happier truth than it 
has ever dreamed, and because it is taught 
in the form of parable or myth in no wise 
detracts from its spiritual value. 

St. Paul makes the definite statement that 
he regards the historical incidents of Abra- 
ham's life as allegorical. He says (Gal. 4:22- 
24): "For it is written that Abraham had 
two sons, the one by a bondmaid, the other 
by a free woman. But he who was of the 
bondwoman was born after the flesh ; but he 
of the free woman was by promise. Which 

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things are an allegory. " The statement is 
plain and incontrovertible. In the revised 
version of 1881 the translators have made 
this read, "Which things contain an allegory." 
This is taking great liberty, and clouds the 
real meaning, for consulting the original text, 
we find the verb which they have translated 
" contain" is the present indicative of the 
verb ' * to be " and simply means ' ' is ' ' . While 
the King James version puts this verb in the 
plural to obtain a smooth translation, it 
preserves the meaning perfectly. The word 
which is translated "allegory" in both cases 
is the declined form of the participle from 
the verb meaning "to allegorize" or "to 
speak allegorically ". This is correctly used 
as a noun the same as the participle in English, 
so that an awkward rendering of the clause, 
but one which gives the true meaning would 
be, "Which is allegorizing" or "Which is (a) 
speaking allegorically." 

And if the account be allegorical in this 
case, why not in most of the Old Testament 
history? The fact that the writers chose to 
use actual happenings in some instances, 
makes the narrative no less allegorical in the 
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its spiritual value, but rather heightens it, 
for anyone who claims he can receive inspira- 
tion or uplift from a perusal of the greater 
part of the Old Testament history and biog- 
raphy, accepted literally, has certainly not 
advanced very far in the true Christian 
spirit. 

And here let it be said that we are all too 
ready to reject, as containing no principle of 
truth, the myths and legends of other nations, 
overlooking the fact that some of the most 
valuable lessons of our own Bible are pre- 
sented in the same manner. We know when 
Jesus said, "Behold a sower went forth to 
sow" he did not intend us to believe that he 
was relating an actual fact in regard to a 
farmer sowing his wheat or oats. This is as 
truly a myth as any, and yet we see its pro- 
found meaning from the interpretation which 
Jesus gave his disciples later. 

The truth concerning God and man and 
nature is truth no matter in what way it may 
be presented. Different races and nations 
have different ways of expressing the same 
truth, but the Pharisees of every age are 
willing to reject the truth if presented to 
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narrow grooves in which their minds have 
worked till they have all but lost the power of 
independent thought. If we regard all legend 
as containing no expression of truth, what 
shall we say of the 31st verse of the 38th 
Chapter of Job? " Canst thou bind the 
sweet influences of Pleiades, or loose the 
bands of Orion ?" A certain legend in con- 
nection with these two constellations has 
reference to this same mystery of God. 

Doubtless these myths and traditions were 
not, in their inception, intended to be under- 
stood to relate actual facts any more than 
the parables of our own Bible were so in- 
tended, but were merely made the vehicles 
of some phase of the simple truth concerning 
life, realized in ancient times by the spiritual 
teachers of the different nations, and clothed 
in this form to be kept alive and handed down 
from age to age. How the real truth in- 
volved could easily have become distorted, 
because only partially comprehended, and 
made the ground for abhorrent practices of 
later spiritually undeveloped adherents of 
certain forms of belief, can be readily under- 
stood by the record of the inhuman crimes 
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development of Christianity; the Inquisi- 
tion, for instance; the Salem Witchcraft; all 
religious persecution, in fact, not to mention 
modern inconsistencies parading under the 
name of Christ Jesus and his teaching. We 
do not think of accusing Jesus of advocating 
this standard of conduct because certain ones 
professing to follow him were guilty of such 
unchristian acts. No more can we with 
certainty accuse the ancient teachers of other 
nations of degeneracy and folly because their 
followers, even including the priesthood, per- 
haps failed to comprehend the spirit and 
meaning of their teaching. And it must also 
be remembered that Christianity being the 
latest religion, humanity as a whole was 
naturally at a higher level when it was es- 
tablished than when the more ancient re- 
ligions were founded, for as time goes on 
the world becomes more capable of com- 
prehending and practising higher truth. 

"That both the Assyrian and the Egyptian 
worship had a solid basis of truth is a fact 
to which the Bible itself bears this remark- 
able testimony: — 'In that day shall Israel 
be the third with Egypt and with Assyria, 
even a blessing in the midst of the land; 

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whom the Lord of Hosts shall bless, saying. 
Blessed be Egypt my people, and Assyria 
the work of my hands, and Israel mine 
Inheritance ' (Isaiah xix. 24)." 

Know this, that truth is eternal. Jesus 
did not make truth, he taught it, and the 
wisdom of the Sages and the Wise Men of 
the East was no less wisdom because it 
existed in the world before Jesus' day. The 
truth ascribed to Moses, that had been given 
to the world centuries before Jesus' time, was 
comprehended by some great soul before 
Jesus came to interpret and re-establish it. 
For however or whenever the Levitical law 
came into existence, we know that Jesus 
knew the esoteric meaning of the outward 
form, and referred to this when he said that 
he came not to destroy the law but to fulfill 
it, and that one jot or tittle would not pass 
away until all be fulfilled ; because the letter 
of the law was being fulfilled every day, afid 
his whole life and teaching contradicted the 
idea of there being any efficacy in the ritual- 
istic ceremony. The truth to which Jesus 
himself tells us that he came to bear witness 
unto was the Eternal Truth that was already 
in the world independent of his emphasizing 

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it, and independent of any organized body 
of believers called "Christians"; and until 
men are broad enough and honest enough to 
acknowledge truth in whatever form it ap- 
pears, they are only defrauding themselves by 
setting limits for their own advancement. 

From the study of the following references 
and related texts, which can be traced in any 
good reference Bible, certain truths will be 
found to be set forth as clearly as is possible 
to be done by means of an institution which 
was both esoteric and exoteric. A systematic 
study of the whole Bible from this point of 
view would of course be more satisfactory, 
but we may form some idea of the far-reach- 
ing importance of the underlying truth typi- 
fied by the Tabernacle and its ordinances 
from some few texts bearing directly on the 
subject. 

It will be noticed by anyone studying the 
matter carefully that we have a rough outline 
of this truth (in symbolical terms, of course) 
included in the first three chapters of Genesis, 
carrying us forward to the present state of 
the race, where it must remain until the 
"mystery of God" has been made known 
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excluded from the Garden of Eden, with the 
curse of hard labor to win his bread resting 
on the man, and sorrow and painful child- 
birth on the woman, until they "return unto 
the ground" — turn their attention to matter 
— learn what it is, conquer it, give it rightful 
recognition in the universal economy, and 
thus transform matter itself, until it ceases 
, to be the heavy burden it now is, and our 
bodies becoming more rarified, absorb their 
needed nourishment from the air, doing away 
with the necessity of bread earned by toil; 
this latter being the truth symbolized by 
the pot of manna put into the ark of the 
covenant (Ex. 16:33-34 and Heb. 9:4). 

Beginning with the 4th chapter of Genesis, 
it takes up the more lengthy task of develop- 
ing the outline, giving repeated instances to 
emphasize the same truths under different 
circumstances. In this way we get a number 
of persons and places referring to the same 
general principle or thing, and we find the 
same truths set forth in greater detail as we 
proceed. For instance, Assyria, Egypt and 
Israel symbolize everywhere throughout the 
Bible the physical, mental and spiritual 
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bolize these same capacities or conditions. 
However, the reverse is not true — that a 
symbol signifies more than one thing except 
in the sense of a modification, enlargement or 
derivation from the one original idea. An 
example of this is water, which embraces the 
psychical realm, including mind, understand- 
ing, knowledge, etc. Babylon's significance 
is equivalent to that of Assyria, and the same 
is true of Tyre, as well as other places, and 
the evil associated with each is the evil of 
separation — that is, lack of unity with the 
mental and spiritual. But the passage 
quoted from Is. 19:24 shows that "in that 
day " (which is now dawning), Assyria, Egypt 
and Israel are to be made one with God's 
blessing. 

To come to the texts referred to, the choice 
of the whole tribe of the Levites to minister 
unto Aaron, the High Priest of the House of 
Levi, and to keep the charge of the Taber- 
nacle, but not before the tabernacle of witness, 
the altar, and the vessels of the sanctuary, 
teaches that no one can expect to be elevated 
to the office of high priest (be recognized by 
his true complement) until he is first a 
Levite (spiritually minded), or that the way 

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of attainment toward the office of high priest 
is through spiritual development, as is seen 
from the thought in the following references : 

''And I, behold I have taken the Levites 
from among the children of Israel instead of 
all the firstborn that openeth the matrix 
among the children of Israel: therefore the 
Levites shall be mine; Because all the first- 
born are mine; for on the day that I smote 
all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, I 
hallowed unto me all the firstborn in Israel, 
both man and beast: mine shall they be: 
I am the Lord" (Num. 3:12-13). 

"Take the Levites instead of all the first- 
born among the children of Israel, and the 
cattle of the Levites instead of their cattle; 
and the Levites shall be mine; I am the 
Lord" (Num. 3:45). 

"Then Moses stood in the gate of the 
camp, and said, Who is on the Lord's side? 
let him come unto me. And all the sons of 
Levi gathered themselves together unto him" 
(Ex. 32:26). 

"And ye shall know that I have sent this 
commandment unto you, that my covenant 
might be with Levi, saith the Lord of hosts. 
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and I gave them to him for the fear where- 
with he feared me, and was afraid before my 
name. The law of truth was in his mouth, 
and iniquity was not found in his lips: he 
walked with me in peace and equity, and 
did turn many away from iniquity " (Mai. 
2:4-6). 

The truth that there is but one true mate 
for each soul is sufficiently evident from 
Jesus' teaching, and that the figure of Aaron 
answers to this need hardly be questioned. 
He stood the highest in privilege and author- 
ity with reference to the sanctuary. He 
alone was permitted to enter the Holy of 
Holies and offer sacrifice within the vail. It 
was Aaron's rod that budded which was to 
be laid up before the testimony to take away 
the murmurings of the children of Israel 
against Moses (for food and drink), and also 
that they die not. That is, with Aaron is 
the power to overcome hunger and death, 
for we read : 

"And it shall come to pass that the man's 
rod, whom I shall choose, shall blossom : and 
I will make to cease from me the murmurings 
of the children of Israel, whereby they mur- 
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that on the morrow Moses went into the 
tabernacle of witness; and, behold, the rod 
of Aaron for the house of Levi was budded 
and brought forth buds, and bloomed blos- 
soms, and yielded almonds. . . . And the 
Lord said unto Moses, Bring Aaron's rod 
again before the testimony, to be kept for a 
token against the rebels; and thou shalt 
quite take away their murmurings from me 
that they die not" (Num. 17:5, 8, 10). 

"And the Lord said unto Aaron, Thou and 
thy sons and thy father's house with thee 
shall bear the iniquity of the sanctuary : and 
thou and thy sons with thee shall bear the 
iniquity of your priesthood. And thy breth- 
ren also of the tribe of Levi, the tribe of thy 
father, bring thou with thee, that they may 
be joined unto thee, and minister unto thee; 
but thou and thy sons with thee shall minister 
before the tabernacle of witness. And they 
shall keep thy charge and the charge of all 
the tabernacle: only they shall not come 
nigh the vessels of the sanctuary and the 
altar, that neither they, nor ye also, die. . . . 
And ye shall keep the charge of the sanctuary 
and the charge of the altar : that there be no 
wrath any more upon the children of Israel. 

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Therefore thou and thy sons with thee shall 
keep your priest's office for everything of the 
altar, and within the vail ; and ye shall serve : 
I have given your priest's office unto you as 
a service of gift: and the stranger that 
cometh nigh shall be put to death" (Num. 
18:1-3, 5, 7). 

The stranger represents anyone who is not 
the true complement, and being put to death 
is intended in the deeper significance to refer 
to dying just as mankind has always done. 
The fact that as long as strangers come nigh 
the sanctuary mankind will continue to die 
is again emphasized in these words : 

"And thou shall appoint Aaron and his 
sons, and they shall wait on their priest's 
office: and the stranger that cometh nigh 
shall be put to death. . . . But those that 
encamp before the Tabernacle toward the 
east, even before the Tabernacle of the 
Congregation eastward, shall be Moses and 
Aaron and his sons, keeping the charge of 
the sanctuary for the charge of the children 
of Israel; and the stranger that cometh nigh 
shall be put to death' 1 (Num. 3:10, 38). 

This is certainly intended to call our at- 
tention forcibly to the fact that anyone but 

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the true complement has not the power to 
overcome death. 

Referring again to " Bible Mystery and 
Bible Meaning", the author states in the 
first chapter: 

"The Bible is the Book of the Emanci^ 
pation of Man. The emancipation of man 
means his deliverance from sorrow and sick- 
ness, from poverty, struggle and uncertainty, 
from ignorance and limitation, and finally 
from death itself. This may appear to be 
what the euphuistic colloquialism of the day 
would call 'a tall order', but nevertheless it 
is impossible to read the Bible with a mind 
unwarped by antecedent conceptions derived 
from traditional interpretation without see- 
ing that this is exactly what it promises, and 
that it professes to contain the secret whereby 
this happy condition of perfect liberty may 
be attained. Jesus says that if a man keeps 
his saying he shall never see death (John 
8:51): in the Book of Job we are told that 
if a man has with him 'a messenger, an 
interpreter', he shall be delivered from going 
down to the pit, and shall return to the 
days of his youth (Job 33 : 24) : the Psalms 
speak of our renewing our youth (Ps. 103 : 5} : 

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and yet again we are told in Job that by 
acquainting ourselves with God we shall be 
at peace, we shall lay up gold as dust and 
have plenty of silver, we shall decree a thing 
and it shall be established unto us (Job 
22:21-23). . . . 

"The first thing to notice is that there is 
a common element running through the texts 
I have quoted; they all contain the idea of 
acquiring certain information, and the prom- 
ised results are all contingent on our getting 
this information and using it. Jesus says it 
depends on our keeping his saying, that is, 
receiving the information which he had to 
give and acting upon it. Job says that it 
depends on rightly interpreting a certain 
message, and again that it depends on our 
making ourselves acquainted with some- 
thing; and the context of the passage in 
Psalms makes it clear that the deliverance 
from death and the renewal of youth there 
promised are to be attained through the 
'ways* which the Lord 'made known unto 
Moses V 

It is interesting to note how all of this, 
though unwittingly on the part of the author, 
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am telling you lies buried in the symbology 
of the Pentateuch. 

Further reference to eternal life we find in 
Deut. 4:40: 

"Thou shalt keep therefore his statutes and 
his commandments, which I command thee 
this day, that it may go well with thee and 
with thy children after thee, and that thou 
may est prolong thy days upon the earth , 
which the Lord thy God giveth thee, for 
ever. 11 : and in Hosea 13 : 14 : 

"I will ransom them from the power of the 
grave; I will redeem them from death: 
death, I will be thy plagues; O grave, I will 
be thy destruction: repentance shall be hid 
from mine eyes." 

We also read that this salvation and ever- 
lasting strength is in the Lord JEHOVAH. 
The original text must have been strongly 
emphasized in some way to cause the trans- 
lators to put the word "Jehovah" in large 
capitals thus: 

"Behold God is my salvation; I will trust 
and not be afraid : for the Lord JEHOVAH 
is my strength and my song; he also is 
become my salvation" (Is. 12:2). 

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Lord JEHOVAH is everlasting strength" (Is. 
26:4). 

This links the power of the Holy Name 
"YEVE" with the prosperity and eternal 
life to which our attention has been called, 
and we also find the NAME of the Lord 
associated with the symbology of the temple 
and the ark of the covenant in the following 
references : 

"And David arose and went with all the 
people that were with him from Baale of 
Judah, to bring up from thence the ark of 
God, whose name is called by the name of the 
Lord of hosts that dwelleth between the 
cherubims" (2 Sam. 6:2). 

"If, when evil cometh upon us, as the 
sword, judgment or pestilence, or famine, we 
stand before this house, and in thy presence 
(for thy name is in this house), and cry unto 
thee in our affliction, then thou wilt hear 
and help" (2 Chr. 20:9). 

Note the force of Deut. 12 : 11 in connection 
with Is. 37:16:— 

"Then there shall be a place which the 
Lord your God shall choose to cause his name 
to dwell there ; thither shall ye bring all that 
I command you; your burnt offerings and 

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your sacrifices, your tithes and the heave 
offering of your hand, and all your choice vows 
which ye vow unto the Lord." 

11 O Lord of hosts, God of Israel, that dwell- 
est between the cherubims, thou art the God, 
even thou alone, of all the kingdoms of the 
earth: thou hast made heaven and earth.' ' 

By Genesis 3:24 we learn that without 
knowledge of this truth we cannot be granted 
entrance back into the garden of Eden (free- 
dom from suffering and limitation), for we 
are told : 

"He drove out the man; and he placed at 
the east of the garden of Eden cherubims and 
a flaming sword which turned every way to 
keep the way of the tree of life/' That is, 
this truth being the most unsuspected and the 
last to be rightly comprehended, would 
naturally include a right understanding of 
other related truths necessary to be under- 
stood, such as the right conception of matter, 
and a knowledge of the spiritual significance 
of the relation between male and female. 
The latter statement is the truth emphasized 
in Malachi 2:13-15: 

"And this have ye done again, covering 
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and with crying out, insomuch that he re- 
gardeth not the offering any more, or re- 
ceiveth it with good will at your hand. Yet 
ye say, Wherefore? (The answer follows.) 
Because the Lord hath been witness between 
thee and the wife of thy youth, against whom 
thou hast dealt treacherously: yet is she 
thy companion and the wife of thy covenant. 
And did he not make one? Yet had he the 
residue of the spirit. And wherefore one? 
(Again the answer.) That he might seek a 
godly seed. Therefore take heed to your 
spirit and let none deal treacherously against 
the wife of his youth." 

This passage has been interpreted to mean 
nothing more than an admonition against 
divorce or unfaithfulness to any wedded 
companion, but in the light of the whole 
truth it seems far more reasonable that "the 
wife of thy covenant 1 ', and "the wife of thy 
youth" refers, in its deepest significance, to 
the one joined to the true husband from the 
beginning, and that this is the information 
that we were intended eventually to get out 
of it. As long as we were unaware that there 
is such a mate, naturally we would not see 
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purpose by inculcating the lesson of faith- 
fulness and kindliness, but this is an example 
of God's method, through the instrument of 
the prophet, of opening our eyes to the full 
truth, through the only means which lifts 
man from lower to higher — the putting into 
practice the law of conduct nearest to the 
truth of which he may at any time have 
knowledge. 

The question, "And did he not make one?" 
"And wherefore one?" strongly suggests this; 
and the answer, "That he might seek a 
godly seed" is shown to be the means of 
removing the "curse" mentioned in verses 
1-4 of this same chapter: 

"And now, ye priests, this command- 
ment is for you. If ye will not hear, and if 
ye will not lay it to heart to give glory unto 
my name saith the Lord of hosts, I will even 
send a curse upon you, and I will curse your 
blessings : yea, I have cursed them already, be- 
cause ye do not lay it to heart. (Note the force 
of that sentence referring to the figurative 
' * wrath of God ".) Behold I will corrupt your 
seed, and spread dung upon your faces, even 
the dung of your solemn feasts ; and one shall 
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that I have sent this commandment unto 
you, that my covenant might be with Levi, 
saith the Lord of hosts/ ' In other words, all 
the blessings promised under the covenant 
(the release from suffering and limitation) 
can only be possible when the right conditions 
have been established; that is, when the 
high priest (who was always of the house of 
Levi under the ceremonial law) is the only 
one to offer sacrifices. This is the true 
monogamy. This is the real science of 
eugenics. 

If anyone still doubts the interpretation 
put upon the sacrifices and offerings, study 
without prejudice Lev. 21:16-23. 

"And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying, 
Speak unto Aaron, saying, Whosoever he be 
of thy seed in their generations that hath any 
blemish, let him not approach to offer the 
bread of his God. For whatsoever man he 
be that hath a blemish, he shall not approach : 
a blind man or a lame, or he that hath a flat 
nose, or anything superfluous, or a man that 
is brokenfooted, or brokenhanded, or crook- 
backt, or a dwarf, or that hath a blemish 
in his eye, or be scurvy or scabbed, or hath 
his stones broken; No man that hath a 

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blemish of the seed of Aaron the priest shall 
come nigh to offer the offerings of the Lord 
made by fire: he hath a blemish; he shall 
not come nigh to offer the bread of his God. 
He shall eat the bread of his God, both of the 
most holy and of the holy. Only he shall 
not go in unto the vail, nor come nigh unto 
the altar because he hath a blemish ; that he 
profane not my sanctuaries: for I the Lord 
do sanctify them." 

Why should a priest be denied particularly 
the privilege to go in unto the vail, or to offer 
an offering by fire because he was deformed, 
if this refers to nothing but ceremony and 
ritual? It should be plain to anyone that 
this is intended to preclude deformed persons 
from physical union effective for procreation 
for the sake of the race. 

In explanation of certain passages that 
have a general bearing on the subject, we 
find that Jacob and Esau represent the 
spiritual and material powers of man, re- 
gardless of Jacob's deplorable trickery in 
many instances; and the line, "Jacob have 
I loved, but Esau have I hated" I think to 
be as inadequately translated as the saying 
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not his mother and father, etc. he could not 
be his disciple. While there is apparently 
but one meaning given for the verb "miseo", 
which is the word used in both the New 
Testament references, we know it must have 
had a different significance than our word 
"hate", for we know that Jesus never in- 
tended to teach that we should hate our 
father or mother or anyone for any cause, 
since this is the exact antithesis of the spirit 
of his teaching. In this we have an example 
of where the "anointing of the Spirit " teaches 
us better than the written word itself, which 
is equally true of many other passages which 
may be taken too literally. 

There are various instances in Jacob's biog- 
raphy where the literal record has no moral 
uplift, but when we remember that it is 
merely a story to illustrate certain facts, we 
need not concern ourselves so much with the 
device used as with the facts it is intended to 
point out. It was necessary to frame some 
kind of excuse for Jacob's getting the birth- 
right although he was slightly younger than 
Esau, for the truth involved in this instance is 
that the spiritual powers of man are destined 
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veloped later, as we have our bodies and 
physical senses before our spiritual life is 
awakened. Again, the instance of Jacob's 
method of increasing the share of the flocks 
that was to be his, which was as unprin- 
cipled as actual stealing, is intended to teach 
the tremendous truth of the effect on phys- 
ical substance of thought during sexual con- 
gress. 

As we follow Jacob's career, we find it to 
represent the spiritual evolution of an in- 
dividual toward the realization of the full 
truth. When he wrestles with the angel, he 
is struggling with the problem of the right 
relation of Spirit and matter, which is a 
corollary to the truth hidden in the meaning 
of the Holy Name. Then we read of the 
reconciliation of Jacob and Esau — Spirit and 
matter — with all that this implies. 

The twelve sons of Jacob, the heads of the 
tribes of Israel, represent the capacities or 
powers of an individual in their mental or 
spiritual, and physical inter-relation. If any- 
one thinks I am simply making an arbitrary 
statement to suit my own purpose, then 
answer what Jesus meant when he said, 
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followed me in the regeneration, when the 
Son of Man shall sit in the throne of his 
glory, ye also shall sit upon twelve thrones, 
judging the twelve tribes of Israel' ' (Matt. 
19 :28). Do you think he meant us to accept 
that literally? He was using symbolical 
language as he did constantly in his teaching. 

Of these twelve sons, Joseph refers to the 
sex function in its purity and spiritual reality. 
His being sold into Egypt, which symbolizes 
mental faculty or mind alone, independent of 
spiritual understanding, represents our blind- 
ness to the facts in connection with the 
faculty typified by Joseph on account of our 
incomplete conception of the truth. Joseph's 
children, Ephraim and Manasseh, represent 
the same thing only more specifically, Eph- 
raim signifying the spiritual reality and 
Manasseh the physical. Here again we find 
the instance of the younger (spiritual) re- 
ceiving the blessing of the birthright over 
the elder (material), for it is recorded that 
Jacob " wittingly " guided his hands and 
placed his right hand upon the head of 
Ephraim, and his left on that of Manasseh 
when blessing Joseph's children (Gen. 48). 

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promptings — our wish to do the right and 
shun the wrong — even though our under- 
standing of right and wrong be imperfect. 

David stands for the perfected spiritual 
understanding in man, or the all conquering 
kingdom of the Spirit, to which all other 
powers, mental and physical, must eventually 
render obedience. He represents the power 
'of the right relation of body, mind and 
Spirit, his stronghold of defense being the 
power of sex uplifted. This explains the 
meaning of the expression, ''the key of the 
house of David' ' (Is. 22:22). Besides being 
represented as king, David is also spoken of 
as shepherd because of his spiritual under- 
standing of the creative energy (the Christos), 
which he exemplifies, and which is the power 
that will, in the end, bring the last wandering 
sheep back to the Father's fold. In Ezekiel 
34:23 we read: "And I will set up one 
shepherd over them, and he shall feed them, 
even my servant David ; he shall feed them, 
and he shall be their shepherd.' * 

For this reason any exponent of this whole 
truth of God concerning the union of Spirit 
and matter in our bodies, whether Joseph, 
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This power is also referred to as the stone 
of stumbling, because of the deep mystery of 
God which it holds, and over it we continu- 
ally stumble until we can view it from the 
spiritual aspect; then the "key of the house 
of David' ' unlocks the mystery. We find 
such reference to Joseph in Gen. 49:22-24: 

" Joseph is a fruitful bough, even a fruitful 
bough by a well; whose branches run over 
the wall: The archers have sorely grieved 
him, and shot at him and hated him. But 
his bow abode in strength, and the arms 
of his hands were made strong by the hands 
of the mighty God of Jacob ; (from thence is 
the shepherd, the stone of Israel:)" 

This is the stone which the builders of the 
temple have always despised. Jesus' refer- 
ence to this is proof of its application to this 
interpretation: "Did ye never read in the 
scriptures, The stone which the builders 
rejected, the same is become the head of the 
corner: This is the Lord's doing and it is 
marvelous in our eyes?" What would be 
marvelous about it in our eyes because it was 
the Lord's doing, if it were not something that 
our immature understanding had led us to 
believe would not be the Lord's doing? 

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But this is because the "Judah" in each 
one of us is the lawgiver first, and when all 
is said, this is just the way God ordered it. 
We all have to come through this same ex- 
perience of shock when this deeper truth of 
God is borne in upon us. But we are told 
that Judah and Joseph (or Ephraim, which 
means the same), are to become one. 

1 'Moreover, thou son of man, take thee 
one stick, and write upon it, For Judah, and 
for the children of Israel his companions: 
then take another stick, and write upon it, 
For Joseph, the stick of Ephraim, and for all 
the house of Israel his companions: And 
join them one to another into one stick ; and 
they shall become one in thine hand" (Eze- 
kiel 37:16-17). And it is then we can look 
upon this matter as God sees it. 

If there still remains a shadow of doubt in 
anyone's mind as to the accuracy of my 
premises — the certainty that by the Holy of 
Holies with its furnishings, the ark of the 
covenant, the tabernacle of witness, or merely 
the tabernacle in some instances, with the 
associated sacrifices and offerings, are really 
meant the organs of reproduction, their 
functions, etc., then I shall be obliged to call 

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his attention to Lev. 15:31-33, where the 
instance given of the defiling of God's taber- 
nacle among us is not veiled, and to Is. 57:7, 
where the prophet has interpreted his own 
symbol. But let all men beware of thinking 
as "natural brute beasts' ' because the most 
sacred things of God are thus associated with 
our physical bodies that the physical feature 
has the same power as the spiritual attitude, 
and mark well what I say in regard to the 
right spiritual conditions in the following 
chapters. 

It is because we have thought that matter 
is no part of God, and consequently that it 
would not be possible for this bodily function 
to be so closely associated with the Spirit of 
God, that we have had wrong thoughts about 
it, and have made it an obstacle to the attain- 
ment of our highest life in God. On this 
account we have wanted to be sure that our 
will to control every part of our bodies would 
not be enslaved by any desire, and this is 
right ; it is just as God intended it to be, for 
in this new understanding of this function the 
primary emphasis is on perfect control before 
we are in a position to use it rightly. This 
control is one of the qualities developed under 

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the standard of Judah, and we are told in 
Gen. 49:10, "The scepter shall not depart 
from Judah, nor a lawgiver from between his 
feet, until Shiloh come; and unto him shall 
the gathering of the people be." After we 
have learned control to the point of sacri- 
ficing anything upon the altar of devotion to 
our highest ideals of right, then God checks 
that lesson off, as it were, and goes back 
to take up another phase of our education 
to teach us that He is all and in all, and to 
remove some of the impressions that had 
to be a little overdrawn in the first place to 
cause us to get the point intended, and a new 
lesson is assigned, the idea of which we get 
from the following references : 

"A son honoureth his father, and a servant 
his master: If then I be a father, where is 
mine honour? and if I be a master, where is 
my fear? saith the Lord of hosts unto you, O 
priests, that despise my name. And ye say, 
Wherein have we despised thy name? (An- 
swer.) Ye offer polluted bread upon mine 
altar; and ye say, Wherein have we polluted 
thee? (Answer.) In that ye say, The 
table of the Lord is contemptible" (Mai. 1: 
6-7). 

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(In this mention of "the table of the Lord" 
we again find the same thought as that sug- 
gested by the pot of manna put into the ark 
of the covenant.) 

"I have spread out my hands all the day 
unto a rebellious people, which walketh in a 
way that was not good, after their own 
thoughts; A people that provoketh me to 
anger continually to my face; that sacri- 
ficeth in gardens, and burneth incense upon 
altars of brick ; . . . Which say (Speaking to 
God !) Stand by thyself, come not near to me; 
for I am holier than thou. These are a smoke 
in my nose, a fire that burneth all the day" 
(Is. 65:2, 3, 5). 

"Shall the work say of him that made it, 
He made me not? Or shall the thing framed 
say of him that framed it, He had no under- 
standing?" (Is. 29:16). 

1 ' Shall mortal man be more just than God ? 
shall a man be more pure than his maker?" 
(Job 4: 17). 

' ' Because Ephraim hath made many altars 
to sin, altars shall be unto him to sin. I 
have written to him the great things of my 
law, but they were counted as a strange thing. 
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offerings, and eat it; but the Lord accept eth 
them not; . . . For Israel hath forgotten his 
maker and buildeth temples (Hosea 8:11-14). 

"Howbeit the most High dwelleth not in 
temples made with hands] as saith the 
prophet, Heaven is my throne, and earth is 
my footstool : what house will ye build me ? 
saith the Lord: or what is the place of my 
rest? Hath not my hand made all these 
things? Ye stiff necked and uncircumcised in 
heart and ears, ye do always resist the Holy 
Ghost: as your fathers did, so do ye M (Acts. 
7:48-51). 

"For my thoughts are not your thoughts, 
neither are your ways my ways, saith the 
Lord" (Is. 55:8). 

"Know ye not that ye are the temple of 
God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in 
you? If any man defile the temple of God, 
him shall God destroy ; for the temple of God 
is holy, which temple ye are" (1 Cor. 3: 
16-17). 

But even the Master Himself had to learn 
this truth concerning the Holy of Holies of 
this temple of the body ere he realized his 
full mission. It should be borne in mind 
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similar to the name "Jehovah". My 
authority for this statement is the late 
Richard Francis Weymouth, M.A., D.Lit., 
Fellow of University College (London), Edi- 
tor of "The Resultant Greek Testament' * 
and author of the "New Testament in 
Modern Speech". I quote from the "New 
Testament in Modern Speech", p. 4 (Third 
Edition), Note 4: ". . . The full significance 
of the name 'Jesus' is seen in the original 
'Yeho-Shua', which means 'Jehovah the 
Saviour', and not merely 'Saviour', as the 
word is commonly explained. ' ' Thus Christ's 
mission is indicated by the meaning of his 
name, which we see to be associated with the 
Holy Name. But we are told that even he 
was made perfect through suffering, to which 
there is ample reference; one in the sym- 
bolical statement in Rev. 11:8. This passage 
alone should be sufficient to disillusion any 
who feel they must put a literal interpre- 
tation upon all parts of the Bible. I repeat 
that the Bible is an admixture of historical 
fact with the symbolical teaching of this 
mystery of the higher truth, which has thus 
been preserved. This has given the Bible its 
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through all time. We know Christ was not 
crucified in Sodom or Egypt, as here stated, 
except in the sense indicated by these sym- 
bols. And with these facts accord the words 
attributed to Jesus, discovered only in recent 
years: "Let not him who seeks cease until 
he finds, and when he finds he shall wonder, 
,and wondering he shall reach the Kingdom, 
and having reached the Kingdom he shall 
rest." 



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The Fire of the Lord 

TO review in brief some of the facts al- 
ready mentioned, it is as if the soul, as 
we ordinarily use the term, is but a partial 
expression of a soul that in the beginning was 
a complete embodiment of masculine and 
feminine power, but that the Creative Law, 
when investing this soul with physical form 
in which to work out its experiences, gain the 
mastery over evil (which is equivalent to 
gaining a right conception of the truth in all 
its phases), and the capacity for unending 
happiness, gave portions of the soul separate 
bodies at an early stage in the evolu- 
tionary process, endowing both with certain 
similar capacities and certain complementary 
ones. 

The science of zoology supports this opinion 
in the like development of the physical or- 
ganism through asexual and hermaphrodite 
stages toward the separate sexes. In the 
branch Protozoa we find forms of life that 

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are asexual and reproduce by fission, budding, 
etc. In the next higher branch — Poriferata — 
we find in certain varieties of the sponges the 
appearance of separate male and female re- 
productive cells, but combined in one body. 
Ascending through the various orders of the 
higher branches, we see the male and female 
cells becoming more distinct in structure ; in 
some cases, as for instance the Portuguese 
Man-of-War, both pedunculated, yet belong- 
ing to the one organism, until finally in the 
still higher branches they appear in separate 
bodies.. 

I realize the analogy is not complete, as 
the ascent from the branch Protozoa is more 
lateral than lineal ; that is, the sponge, is a 
completed animal in its branch, having ad- 
vanced along a path parallel to, we might say, 
but not necessarily identical with the animals 
of the higher branches; the same being true 
of the Portuguese Man-of War. Neverthe- 
less, these are examples of forms of animal 
life still existing, which furnish the clue to 
the evolutionary trend — the general course 
over which man has ascended to his higher 
goal from the particular protoplasmic cell, 
the quality and nature of which I hold the 

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Creator must have designed to produce a 
human being. 

If any doubt the judgment of the scientist 
concerning the mute testimony of the past 
ages regarding the facts of evolution, then 
let him listen with reason and honesty to the 
ceaseless repetition of the record of the de- 
velopment of the human being through lower 
forms £>f life and undifferentiated sex, by a 
living witness whose verity cannot be ques- 
tioned — the human embryo. But to accept 
the facts of evolution as true does not neces- 
sitate the acceptance of the materialistic 
theory as to the cause of these facts, as 
seems to be the general impression. It is 
the erroneous conclusions of physical science, 
which overlook God as the intelligence back 
of the evolutionary plan that cause a great 
many people who have made no particular 
effort to inform themselves on the subject, to 
disbelieve actual facts as well as this theory. 
For most people instinctively feel, and 
rightly so, that there is something radically 
wrong with the cheerless doctrine that all 
life and attainment are the results of the 
action of mechanical causes upon inert mat- 
ter. But this mistaken theory, deduced from 

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observations which establish the physical 
facts, comes from not consulting spiritual as 
well as material evidence as to the meaning of 
the facts. 

It is the combined use of reason and 
intuition that enables us to draw right con- 
clusions from any given data. The materi- 
alistic scientist who disregards the voice of 
intuition is no more to blame, however, than 
the moralist who disregards the voice of 
reason. Neither is quite honest. For the 
moralist to declare that he does not want to 
be convinced of any given fact lest his faith 
in God's love and goodness should be shaken, 
is to admit that he is willing to be hood- 
winked and live in a fool's paradise. We 
need never be afraid to have the changeless, 
eternal truth uncovered, and the greater 
measure of truth we comprehend, the more 
plainly do we see the happy goal toward 
which all things are tending. 

To fail to listen to intuition, which always 
associates our existence with a loving Father, 
is to limit our aspirations and happiness 
because of the gloomy philosophy deduced 
from physical facts alone. Likewise, to fail 
to listen to reason as to the existence of these 

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facts also limits our aspirations and happiness 
because of the narrowing effect it has upon 
our outlook upon life, and the check it puts 
upon advancement and expansion in all 
directions, due to the failure to believe as 
possible the developments and attainments 
foreshadowed in the facts themselves when 
rightly interpreted as to cause and trend. 

In regard to the physical form, science tells 
us that the evolution of our hermaphrodite 
ancestors resulted in the dual expression of 
male and female human beings. This being 
true, we must, in the light of advancing 
knowledge, also concede a cleavage of the 
original soul capacity, which wrought the 
subsequent selection of the distinct mas- 
culine and feminine reproductive physical 
substance and forms, by the respective mas- 
culine and feminine complementary elements 
of mind and soul. For if the physical forms 
of our early invertebrate ancestors, and 
possibly the lowest vertebrate, were hermaph- 
rodite, and the separation of the sexes took 
place through division of labor, the con- 
clusion is unavoidable that when certain 
physical functions were apportioned for ot> 
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psychical elements must also at the same 
time have been selected from the total by 
both evolving individuals for performing 
their particular duties. This at least estab- 
lishes the reasonableness of a theory which 
at first thought might seem wholly fanciful 
or unfounded. 

And it would seem in the case of the man 
and woman possessing parts of the same soul, 
that the power of recognition of each other 
had been placed so deep within that they are 
obliged to learn the lessons of life which 
develop their spiritual senses, and to seek the 
Spirit within themselves before they can re- 
gain this power of recognition which was 
wholly lost to them while living in either the 
physical or mental state of consciousness. 
Before they are sufficiently developed spir- 
itually, they must have a genuine unselfish 
love for all humanity — a love that seeks to 
serve at every opportunity — and before they 
can know without doubt or misgiving the 
complement of their own souls, the dross of 
all impurity of thought must have been 
purged away to such extent that God can be 
recognized as all, and all as God. 

It should be remembered that the principle 

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of sex means more than physical sex organs 
and passion. The underlying reality which 
finds ultimate expression in the physical 
bodies of individuals, is the principle of the 
positive and negative forces of the Universal 
Life Energy, which has brought all organized 
forms into existence from the compounds of 
mineral atoms to man. 

This same upward drawing Power which 
works through every individual life, causing 
it to evolve from lower to higher physically, 
mentally and spiritually, is, in the language 
of Scripture, the Christos; literally, "the 
anointed": hence one chosen for a special 
service. After creating and perfecting phys- 
ical forms of life, its service now is to estab- 
lish the universal consciousness that God is 
ONE; that the universal substance is a 
manifestation of the Absolute as truly as is 
the Spirit which pervades it; that certain 
elements of this substance vibrating at a 
rate sufficiently slow to be perceptible to the 
physical senses, or what we speak of as 
physical matter, is also God, and that every 
natural function of our physical bodies was 
made to be perfected until God can be 
glorified through it. This is the Power 

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which has inspired the spiritual leaders and 
seers of all ages and nations, which was 
personified by David and was incarnate in 
the man Jesus. 

It is this principle, which was manifested 
in greater measure in Jesus than in any other, 
instead of the man Jesus himself, that we 
should bear in mind to read understanding^ 
either the Old or the New Testament. We 
know that Jesus did not refer to his own 
personality when he said, "I am the way, 
the truth and the life : no man cometh unto 
the Father but by me." Again, he says 
plainly, "He that believeth on me, believeth 
not on me, but on him that sent me" (John 
12:44). This meaning of the Creative Life 
Principle, or Christos, is made plain in Micah 
5:2: "But thou, Bethlehem Ephratah, 
though thou be little among the thousands of 
Judah, yet out of thee shall he come forth 
unto me that is to be ruler in Israel; whose 
goings forth have been from of old, from ever- 
lasting" 

This Creative Energy operates through all 
our talents and capacities, but its stronghold 
for transforming the matter of which our 
bodies are composed, and for purifying our 

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minds from misconceptions of the truth in 
regard to all of God's universe is the sex 
power in its twofold physical and spiritual 
significance, enabling us at length to see that 
all is God. The working of the Christos 
through the sex centers on the substance 
which constitutes our material bodies is the 
fire of the Lord, so often mentioned in the 
Bible. This is the import of John's state- 
ment that Christ would baptize with the 
Holy Ghost and with fire; that is with such 
power of spiritual discernment as enables one 
to see the Father in all his work, even in 
this effect upon our physical bodies, which it 
becomes very evident upon study, means a 
combination of electrical and spiritual power 
so closely united as to be inseparable. 

Our attention is first called to this fact by 
the allegorical account of Moses' face shining 
when he comes down from the mount, and 
the many references to thunder and lightning 
about the mount, which holy mountain also 
refers to the place of the sanctuary. This 
evidence of the presence of electricity is 
supplemented by the record of Ezekiel's 
vision in the first chapter of Ezekiel. 

To better understand the strange imagery 

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of this chapter, which is a setting forth of the 
most sacred and profound truths of God's 
creation, let us note first the meaning of some 
of the symbols employed as they are com- 
monly used throughout the Bible. Pure 
Spirit is represented by light, the color white 
and wind. The action of Spirit on matter 
is represented by fire. Ezekiel mentions the 
fact that the whirlwind came out of the 
north. This is significant because the names 
of the four directions have weighty meanings 
in symbolical language, as do the signs of the 
Zodiac, as anciently associated with familiar 
facts of life. The north, which is associated 
with the sign of the Bull (or ox), champions 
the working out of spiritual conceptions in 
matter, hence the bodily union of man and 
woman. Without the qualities symbolized by 
this sign we should be impractical, incapable 
of accomplishing things in the material world. 
In its lower aspect (separated from its spirit- 
ual reality, for this alone is what constitutes 
the lower aspect of any capacity of mind or 
body), it genders anger, strife and lust; up- 
lifted through spiritual discernment, it begets 
strength and pure, ardent love and becomes 
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on the substance of our bodies — the means of 
their further evolution toward refinement, 
rarification and eternal existence, through 
transformation. 

The East, associated with Scorpio, and the 
Eagle (which means Scorpio uplifted), cham- 
pions the soul union of man and woman in a 
love by which they are made one through 
the Christ consciousness, whereby the sex 
force is discovered to be what it is in its 
spiritual reality, and thus becomes uplifted. 

The South, associated with the man, or 
angel, champions the kindly, passionless 
mother love that enfolds all the world in its 
yearning sympathy. 

The West, associated with the Lion, cham- 
pions integrity, uprightness, and high pur- 
pose, with a suggestion of severity in its 
devotion to duty. From an abnormal de- 
velopment of these qualities by themselves 
we should get narrow mindedness, religious 
intolerance, etc., but rightly balanced, are 
summed up in purity and moral courage. 

Now the qualities of no one of these signs 
are sufficient of themselves. The Creator 
did not intend it to be so, and the reign of 
the ' * kings" mentioned by Daniel, which 

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come forth in solitary power from any of 
these directions, is characterized by evil. It 
requires the blending of all four into one for 
the desired resultant — the high spiritual 
understanding that puts the proper value 
upon matter, sees it as a worthy servant — the 
medium for the expression of the life of the 
Spirit — and by this understanding and use 
of it, transforms and spiritualizes matter 
itself. 

Returning again to the first appearance of 
the vision, our attention is called to the action 
of Spirit on matter by the presence of the 
whirlwind and the fire. The significance of 
the whirlwind's coming from the north has 
been explained. From the description of the 
living creatures we see (verse 7) that their 
feet resembled calves' feet (in significance 
those of the ox) , and that they sparkled like 
the color of burnished brass. By verse 10 we 
learn that they all had four faces (powers of 
recognition) — the face of a man, a lion, an ox 
and an eagle. It would take us too far afield 
to speak here of every minute detail men- 
tioned, which in interpreting symbols must 
not be overlooked, but as an example, notice 
the position of those four faces. The faces of 

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the man and the lion were on the right side, 
and the face of the ox on the left side. He 
does not definitely locate the face of the 
eagle. This is also significant as we shall 
presently see. How odd they must have 
looked ! Their delineation would rival a spec- 
imen of futurist art ; but it must be borne in 
mind that the "living creatures' ' were just 
an assemblage of symbolical entities to indi- 
cate the qualities necessary to produce the 
super-man, who will be aware of and able to 
appropriate his inherent power of endless life. 
We have already called attention to the 
meaning and position of the four faces; but 
what is the force of the fact that the faces of 
the man and the lion were on the right side? 
The right side symbolizes the initiative power 
of pure Spirit, while the left represents the 
stabilizing power of matter, which together 
show forth the complete being of God (the 
Absolute, who manifests as both Spirit and 
matter as we ordinarily use the terms) in the 
proper union of Spirit and matter. Notice 
that the qualities of the man and the lion are 
those of the soul and Spirit only, while those 
of the ox have to do with matter, hence that 
face is on the left side. It is of singular 

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interest that he does not tell us where the 
face of the eagle is. It would not be con- 
sistent for it to be on either the exact right 
or left, for while the capacity symbolized by 
the eagle has to do with matter in the sense 
of discovering its rightful place and lifting it 
up, it is a quality of soul or Spirit that is 
above and independent of matter in its 
initiative action. 

To go back a little, why was the preference 
given to the ox that there should be both a 
face and feet of this type? Because among 
the divine realities of existence which are 
focused in and expressed through the phys- 
ical body of man, the feet represent the 
understanding, in the sense of a correct 
mental comprehension, the hearing repre- 
senting spiritual perception. This explains 
the meaning of Jesus' act in washing the 
disciples' feet — cleansing the understanding. 
And before man can become anything more 
than he now is, it is necessary to have a 
better understanding in regard to the qual- 
ities indicated by the sign of the ox, which 
have been stated in connection with the 
meaning of the directions, as we already 
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of the capacities indicated by the other signs 
than we have had of this. The fact that they 
were the feet of a young animal shows that 
it was the most recently acquired knowledge, 
or the last necessary to begin the perfecting 
of man. The significance of the fact that 
they sparkled like burnished brass is in the 
particular kind of metal mentioned. The 
language of symbolism is marvelously concise 
and expressive, and we may look for special 
meanings in seemingly trivial details. Why 
were the feet of brass instead of gold or silver, 
for instance? In the analysis of the facts in 
regard to this point we again find reference 
to electricity, for brass, as we know, is an 
alloy of copper and zinc — the metals used to 
generate electricity in a simple cell. Bear 
in mind that the knowledge possessed by 
certain of the ancients, concerning the hidden 
forces and laws of Nature will afford work of 
investigation for modern science for some 
time to come. The brass feet, therefore, 
indicate that it is necessary that we under- 
stand the scientific and physiological purpose 
and explanation of the law of physical union 
championed by the ox, and that its nature 
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Coming to verses 13 and 14, we again find 
this repeated mention of lightning, further 
emphasizing the presence of electricity in 
connection with this fire of the Lord. The 
truth that furnishes the key to the higher 
evolution of the race is contained in verses 
16-21 of this chapter, and in verses 9-17 of 
,the 10th chapter, referring to the movements 
of the living creatures. In the 10th chapter, 
Ezekiel relates having seen the same vision 
as the one described with the exception that 
the face of the cherub was seen instead of the 
face of the ox. He takes particular care to 
tell us that it is identically the same living 
creature, and the presence of the cherub 
(equivalent to the cherubim) is wholly con- 
sistent. Please read both chapters carefully. 

In regard to the figure of the wheel so 
often referred to, this word "wheel" is trans- 
lated elsewhere in the margin as "whirling 
dust". Here again we find the same idea 
as expressed by the whirlwind and the fire, 
mentioned in the 4th verse of the 1st chapter 
— the action of Spirit (symbolized by the 
wind), on matter, for he tells us the appear- 
ance of the wheel was like unto the color of 
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yellow, but evidently the yellow (flame- 
colored) beryl is meant here. Now look at 
the 13th verse of the 10th chapter: "As for 
the wheels, it was cried unto them in my 
hearing, O wheel.' ' For the wheel to be thus 
addressed suggests the presence of a living 
intelligence, indicating that the very Spirit 
of Life Itself is inseparably connected with 
this action of the Spirit on matter, which is 
apparently just what the prophet is trying to 
impress upon us when he recounts in so 
many ways the movements of the creatures: 
"And when the living creatures went, the 
wheels went by them: and when the living 
creatures were lifted up from the earth, the 
wheels were lifted up. Whithersoever the 
spirit was to go, they went, thither was their 
spirit to go; and the wheels were lifted up 
over against them : for the spirit of the living 
creature was in the wheels. When those 
went, these went; when those stood, these 
stood; and when those were lifted up from 
the earth, the wheels were lifted up over 
against them: for the spirit of the living 
creature was in the wheels' ' (Ezek. 1 : 19-21). 
What does this portrayal of the inseparable 
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stance, so many times reiterated, signify, if 
not that in the manifestation of the Universal 
Life Energy next beyond or within electricity, 
we contact the very Spirit of Life Itself in 
connection with this electrical fire of the 
Lord? The saying has been attributed to 
Mr. Edison that we might as well spell 
electricity "G-O-D", and we see how closely 
he has approached to the truth, for I firmly 
believe that all this is to teach us that it is a 
combination of electrical and spiritual power, 
functioning through the uplifted sex force of 
soul complements that is to be the means 
whereby we shall be liberated from the 
grosser material of which our bodies are com- 
posed, and gradually acquire the more etherial 
quality of body that can receive from the air 
the nourishment necessary for its sustenance. 

'Tut off thy shoes from off thy feet 

for the place whereon thou 

standest is holy ground.' ' 

The question naturally arises that if this 
be true of one man and woman, why not true 
of any man and woman joined in legal wed- 
lock? Because, in the first place, this is 
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be given by the symbol of Aaron's rod bud- 
ding, and its having the power to remove the 
murmurings of the children of Israel (the 
impotence of the capacities or the powers of 
man, which take rise from his ideas or under- 
standing of the truth — the facts concerning 
all life) that they die not, and the emphasis 
laid on the fact that the stranger that came 
nigh was to be put to death. But independ- 
ently of this, by this new understanding 
there is found to be present in the love rela- 
tion of true spiritual mates, an element of 
sacredness and worship which I believe you 
will agree with me is anything but commonly 
experienced. The chastening that the soul 
has received before it is able to find its mate, 
and the rest found in the union with the other 
soul through the Christ consciousness, pro- 
duces a quality of love that can exist only 
between two such individuals, and is neces- 
sary as the magnet to attract the current of 
electrical and spiritual force, which alone 
possesses transforming power. In this, as 
everywhere throughout the universe, the 
spiritual and physical are related, therefore, 
the right spiritual conditions are necessary 
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An interesting example of this inter-relation 
of the elements of the universal substance 
with spiritual realities, and the constancy of 
this relation in all modes of expression is 
brought to our attention in this connection. 
For instance, we are told that the solar ray 
corresponding to the planet Mars is red, and 
its metal, iron ; and in this further example we 
find the color red associated with the metal 
iron. Red is the color corresponding to the 
qualities typified by the sign of the Bull (or 
ox), which in their higher aspects as seen to 
be strength, and pure ardent love. These 
qualities, Ezekiel, in calling attention to the 
ox in his description of the "living creatures'' 
shows us to be necessary to produce the 
super-man, whose possibilities are seen, 
through the meaning of the Holy Name, to 
be evolved from his present limited life only 
as he attains a right understanding of the 
sex capacity, the physical power of which is 
indicated by the different references to 
lightning, to be electrical, and in this way 
iron is again associated with the color red 
through the qualities symbolized by this 
color; for we know that a soft iron core (or 
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drawing power of soft iron) for the armature 
is necessary before electricity can be drawn 
from the air by the dynamo. The armature 
might be revolved indefinitely, but if the 
magnetic core were lacking, no electricity 
would be gathered. On the other hand, we 
know that even with a properly magnetized 
core, if the whole dynamo could be enclosed 
under a glass case and a perfect vacuum 
produced, there would be no electricity 
gathered for the magnet could not contact 
with the air. 

Now that the union of the souls and bodies 
of true spiritual mates forms the perfectly 
equipped d3oiamo is no mere figure of speech. 
It is an actual fact. But the union of the 
particular souls and bodies which are partial 
expressions of the same complete soul is 
necessary for the right vibratory conditions 
to exist both physically and spiritually; for 
only the requisite quality of love, and spiritual 
understanding of this power can produce in 
the flesh the properly magnetized iron core 
which is necessary to draw through the mind 
to the body the transforming effects of the 
Spirit. In this we glimpse the sweep of the 
ancient wisdom which declares "that man is 

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the Microcosm, that is to say, the reproduc- 
tion of all the principles which give rise to 
the manifestation of the universe, or the 
Macrocosm/ ' 

The right spiritual conditions correspond to 
the access of the dynamo to the air, for until 
there is no thought or impulse that can serve 
as a barrier between the man and woman and 
the conscious presence of God during sexual 
congress, the right conditions do not exist; 
because the secret power of the Holy Name 
abides in the trinity of dualities — God and 
man; Spirit and matter; masculine and fem- 
inine as Two In One, and in the magnet that 
can attract the electro-living current which 
has power to transform physical tissue, the 
spiritual element predominates. 

To the woman must be allowed the initi- 
ative in recognizing her mate; this is the 
working of the law, and when her soul has 
found its rest, surrender is complete; but this 
can never be until all the longings of her soul 
for holy things are understood, appreciated 
and supplemented by the spiritual aspirations 
and God-like qualities in the soul of the man. 
But such surrender does not imply the giving 
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ment of perfect equilibrium throughout the 
whole being, because of the fact that each 
finds his complement (complete-ment) in the 
other. For this reason there can be the per- 
fect merging of the two lives into one without 
deterioration to either, but rather added 
strength and stimulation for united service 
and continuous development, which is the 
plan of the Creator, to be worked out in the 
spiritual evolution of the race. 

But for these conditions to be possible, both 
must possess a hunger and thirst after right- 
eousness, for not till this continual prayer for 
righteousness, and worship of the Father can 
ascend unhindered through the absence of 
dross in the soul of her mate, can a woman's 
offering be complete and effective unto life; 
for the offering of the body merely for the 
satisfying of the flesh, without the presence 
of the necessary spiritual impulse and aspir- 
ation, possesses no evolutionary possibilities. 

This furnishes an index to the kind of char- 
acter the men of the world will have to 
possess before they can hope to draw to 
themselves their true mates. There can be 
no feigning of genuine merit; no half-way 
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must "right about face" and realize that 
spirituality is not a thing to be sought alone 
by women; that spirituality in no wise de- 
prives a man of any virile quality, but causes 
him to lose only crude perversities, which 
some apparently think an indication of mas- 
culine valor. We cannot expect to receive 
the blessings of the Spirit if we are ashamed 
to acknowledge our allegiance to it. This is 
not because these are withheld as a punish- 
ment, but because we ourselves close the 
channel through which they can come to us. 

It is needless to say that these are not the 
conditions generally existing with reference 
to physical union. Indeed, for the most part, 
it has probably not been thought of; nay, 
more — with many, such sanctity in connec- 
tion with this matter could doubtless not be 
understood. It was of those in this material 
stage of development that Jesus spoke when 
he said, " Neither cast ye your pearls before 
swine, lest they trample them under their 
feet and turn again and rend you." But all 
are destined to pass beyond this stage in 
time, for the Father will draw all men unto 
Himself. 

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on the part of both men and women be 
thought possible only at some distant future 
time, or by some recluse; not that temporary 
retirement may not be profitable for us at 
times, but we are not intended always to live 
apart from men. The realization of these 
conditions centers in a most earnest desire and 
undivided purpose to live the highest life, and 
is by no means impossible in this century and 
year, by men and women engaged in daily 
occupation for a livelihood; but with the 
vision — the vision that lifts the thoughts and 
aims above and beyond material things and 
the limitations of the physical senses. Not 
that material things are not necessary and 
beautiful at their right valuation; they are 
absolutely necessary in their tangible rigidity 
in our present state of development. But 
until we can grasp the sense of the reality, 
the greater importance, and beauty and sat- 
isfaction of the life of the Spirit — the life 
lived close to God — we are allowing material 
things to fetter us and rob us of the sweeter 
harmonies of life, rather than serve our high- 
est good as they are designed to do. 

Our greatest difficulty in believing such 
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fearing to face ideal conditions — to get really 
close to God and be convinced for ourselves 
what happiness and possibilities are for us if 
we take God with us into everything, and do 
not limit "the Holy One of Israel", as did 
the Israelites of old, which we are told by 
the author of Hebrews (who it is evident had 
such a perfect understanding of this whole 
subject), was the reason why they could not 
enter into the rest (liberation from toil and 
privation, and rest unto the soul) prepared 
for the people of God, "although the works 
were finished from the foundation of the world" 
And indeed as long as we insist upon measur- 
ing the attainment of the future by that of 
the past, and refuse to believe it possible to 
realize any given ideal, naturally our own 
refusal to accept it will necessarily keep us 
from obtaining it. 

Someone said to me not long ago— a min- 
ister by the way — "What is the use of having 
ideals if you are ever going to realize them?" 
(No, I did not misunderstand him. I have 
quoted him verbatim, I believe.) My 
thought in this matter is, What is the use of 
having ideals unless you intend to realize 
them? Why should we be paralyzed with 

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fright because an ideal which we may be 
willing to accept as possible "sometime" 
becomes real? I admit the naturalness of 
the feeling of awe, if not terror, when we 
realize that God is actually talking with us 
through our quickened spiritual comprehen- 
sion, and like Gideon of old, we cry, "Alas, 
Lord God: for because I have seen an 
angel of the Lord face to face." But if we 
really want God and do not turn away, then 
to us as to Gideon comes the reassuring 
answer, as from a tender protector leading us 
through strange scenes and experiences with 
which we are not familiar, "Peace be unto 
thee; fear not: thou shalt not die." 

Thinking of this capacity of sex as a weak- 
ness of the flesh alone that must be yielded 
to ever so moderately is not the right under- 
standing in regard to it. We should make no 
compromise with evil, and what cannot be 
done with the conscious blessing, and in the 
conscious presence of God should NEVER 
be done. This life energy should be rever- 
enced as an evidence of the presence of the 
power of the Living God in our bodies. We 
should not be ashamed of it, but control its 
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pletely by a right understanding of its spir- 
itual reality, by high thought and high pur- 
pose that as far as our physical comfort is 
concerned, it is negligible; then use this 
uplifted power, referred to variously through- 
out the Bible in connection with the "rod", 
the "sword" and the "Tree of Life" only 
when blended in harmony with all the qual- 
ities and capacities corresponding to the 
seven colors of the spectrum, to which we 
find reference in the mention made of the 
rainbow in the last verse of this first chapter 
of Ezekiel. 

This is the same lesson which is taught by 
St. John's symbol of the four horsemen, 
recorded in the 6th chapter of Revelation, 
which, by the power of the real truth it por- 
trays will outlive any profanation. 

"And I saw when the lamb opened one of 
the seals, and I heard, as it were the noise of 
thunder, one of the four beasts saying, Come 
and see. 

"And I saw, and behold a white horse: 
and he that sat on him had a bow; and a 
crown was given unto him: and he went 
forth conquering and to conquer. 

"And when he had opened the second 
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seal, I heard the second beast say, Come 
and see. 

4 'And there went out another horse that 
was red: and power was given to him that 
sat thereon to take peace from the earth, and 
that they should kill one another : and there 
was given unto him a great sword. 

"And when he had opened the third seal, 
I heard the third beast say, Come and see. 
And I beheld, and lo a black horse; and he 
that sat on him had a pair of balances in his 
hand. 

"And I heard a voice in the midst of the 
four beasts say, A measure of wheat for a 
penny, and three measures of barley for a 
penny; and see thou hurt not the oil and the 
wine. 

"And when he had opened the fourth seal, 
I heard the voice of the fourth beast say, 
Come and see. 

"And I looked and behold a pale horse: 
and his name that sat on him was Death, 
and Hell followed with him. And power was 
given unto them over the fourth part of the 
earth, to kill with the sword, and with hunger, 
and with death, and with the beasts of the 
earth." 

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The word " beast' ' in this connection, re- 
ferring to the beasts which spoke, does not 
have a bad meaning as one might think. It 
comes from the Greek word "zoon", meaning 
"animal" or "a living being", and is ren- 
dered in the revised version " living creature" 
as in Ezekiel. The term "living creature" 
does not necessarily carry the idea of an 
animal of the lower order. It could mean 
a human being or a superhuman being, as life 
or something alive is the predominating 
thought. It is not the word used in the 
1st verse of the 13th chapter, which is 
translated "beast", and which means "wild 
animal". 

This symbol emphasizes the same truth 
as the vision we have just been considering. 
The horse typifies passion in its relation to 
the vitalizing principle in Nature. The first 
horseman rides a white horse. This then 
represents the spiritual reality of passion, 
blended in the true proportion with other 
necessary qualities, for all the rays of light 
blended into one in the ether, which corres- 
ponds to the realm of the Spirit, produce 
white light. Notice that the horseman wears 
a crown — the symbol of governing power— 

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and goes forth conquering and to conquer. 
This is the power that will eventually con- 
quer all evil and limitation (or misconception 
of the truth, arising from our incompleteness), 
and bring all into subjection to the Kingdom 
of the Spirit. The symbol of the bow we 
shall not desecrate with words. Its sanctity 
is inviolable. 

The second horse is red. This indicates 
that the qualities typified by the seven solar 
rays have been separated in the prism of the 
psychical plane — mind — which is represented 
throughout the Bible by water (hence the 
prismatic power suggested in this figure), and 
the red ray. standing alone, not balanced by 
the others, will necessarily manifest in its 
lower aspect; Therefore this horseman's 
weapon could not refer to the sword of the 
Spirit, but to the weapon of strife gendered 
by anger and lust, which has power to hurt 
in every way. 

The third horse is black. Some might 
think this to be an evil indication. Quite to 
the contrary, it affords the key to the whole 
truth. Black is the color produced when all 
the colors are combined in matter. Paints 
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mixed, will produce black. The truth taught 
here is that physical desire — a quality be- 
longing to the red ray — must not be the 
first nor only cause for physical union, but 
that a balance of all the qualities of character, 
the corresponding colors of which produce 
black when combined in material substance, 
must be brought to bear upon matter before 
any evolutionary effects can be produced. 

It is needless to say that the response of 
the physical organism must necessarily be 
present in union for change to be effected in 
the physical body, but not until the body has 
been crucified and risen again — that is, phys- 
ical appetite and passion brought thoroughly 
under the control of the will, and permanently 
subjugated to the mandates of the aspiring 
soul, have we gained the mastery over the 
flesh that is necessary to enable us to receive 
the gift of a quickened spiritual consciousness, 
and to comprehend the actuating motive and 
power by which this physiological change can 
be brought about. 

Thus in the matter of our food, to count 
eating our greatest pleasure, and burden the 
stomach with quantities of food not necessary 
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there is nothing wrong about enjoying our 
necessary food. In fact, unless the food is 
grateful to the palate, the digestive processes 
are not properly stimulated, but the matter 
of control is always an essential factor to 
one's well being and self respect. And thus 
the right use of the sex function centers about 
control, associated with an intelligent under- 
standing of its meaning, and with spiritual 
aspiration. But these matters will naturally 
adjust themselves through the spiritual 
growth necessary to lead one to completion. 
So we have symbolized by the black horse 
exactly the same qualities as by the white 
horse, but the latter refers to the spiritual 
realities, represented by all the color rays 
blended into white light, while the former 
typifies the physical manifestation of the 
qualities associated with these same color 
rays converged again in matter (applied 
to our bodies) after having passed through 
the psychical prism — the mind — each being 
rightly understood. And in this connection 
we note with interest from the 8th verse of 
the 6th chapter of Zechariah that it was the 
white and black horses that went forth into 
the north, which quieted the spirit of the 

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angel, as related in the account of this 
prophet's vision in regard to this same truth. 

The horseman carries a pair of balances. 
This has no reference to famine or privation, 
but signifies the exact equilibrium which must 
exist between the forces of Spirit and matter 
in this connection. And note the ratio of 
the spiritual and physical. Wheat refers to 
the spiritual reality of the fire of the Lord; 
barley to the physical element. But three 
measures of barley can be purchased for the 
price of one measure of wheat; hence the 
value of the spiritual element is seen to be 
threefold that of the physical. The caution 
is given to hurt not the oil and the wine, 
meaning the light and understanding of the 
life of the Spirit, three-fourths of the efficacy 
of this capacity residing in the spiritual 
actuating motive, and a right understanding 
of the purpose of the existence of this law. 
This constitutes its use as " HOLINESS 
UNTO THE LORD'— the words that were 
to be graven on a plate of pure gold, and 
worn by Aaron upon his forehead. 

The fourth horse is pale. This signifies 
passion suppressed unduly or killed. This 
has been considered the preferable course in 

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regard to this matter by some earnestly 
desiring spiritual development. It is the 
natural conclusion (when we have advanced 
far enough for this matter to disturb us at 
all) until our eyes are opened to the whole 
truth. Then we find that desuetude of this 
function is not the goal to be sought ; nor its 
complete transformation into other channels 
of creative work: neither is its sole purpose 
that of procreation. When we are willing to 
offer upon the altar of sacrifice anything 
which we think stands in the way of our 
spiritual growth, including this tendency of 
the flesh, then as in the allegory of Abraham 
offering up Isaac, lo, a voice calls to us out 
of heaven, "Lay not thine hand upon the 
lad", and a proper sacrifice is seen to be 
provided, which we find involves the offering 
of every atom of our physical bodies as well 
as our souls, as a "living sacrifice' * upon 
God's chosen altar, with the result of over- 
coming hunger and death and hell (Hades, 
the grave), which followed in the train of the 
horseman on the pale horse. 

It is just this necessity for the exact equi- 
librium of the understanding between the 
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of this sacrifice that makes the gate so 
strait and the way so narrow, for while this 
power must be used and not slain, the phys- 
ical feature must be understood to exist not 
as an end in itself, but as a means for the 
proper working of the law upon the tissues 
of our bodies. On the other hand, the re- 
sponse of the sensory neurons must not be 
thought of as wrong or impure in itself, or 
the thought of guilt will become a barrier 
between ourselves and God. This normal 
activity of the sex organs was instituted by 
the all-wise Father as truly as the normal 
action of heart or lungs. Without this stim- 
ulus in both male and female these organs 
could not perform their work; hence fertili- 
zation would be impossible, and consequently 
the propogation of the race would be im- 
possible. Then if it is intended by the 
Creator, why should we attempt to destroy 
it — that is, its high and rightful use? And 
why have some most concerned about their 
spiritual welfare felt they should destroy its 
natural expression? Because, in the last 
analysis, they have not yet grasped its highest 
significance (their experience may not have 
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have not felt it to be in accord with the 
thought of God. Indeed, the almost univer- 
sal conception of its use has not been in 
accord with God's thought, and as long as 
one sees in this capacity no higher significance 
than mere gratefulness to the flesh, he may- 
know he has not comprehended the divinely 
beautiful truth involved. Only through the 
worship of worth, and the longing to get 
close to God, with the yearning to help every- 
one else to want Him and find Him, can one 
be led to the vantage point where he is 
enabled to formulate a right conception of 
this matter. But when we pause to con- 
sider the attraction of sex in the light of its 
origin, its most sacred meaning, and the 
importance of its office, our pseudo-idealism 
which causes us to pronounce God's work 
unholy, is seen to reflect only our grossly 
inadequate conception of its full meaning, 
and assumes a humiliating aspect. 

It seems reasonable to think that as our 
bodies become less and less dense, approach- 
ing the rarity of the spiritual body, the ex- 
change of the electro-living current necessary 
for their continued revitalization, through 
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of creative energy, could take place readily 
by mere proximity, and that the law as it 
operates now would give place to this method. 
But the bridge over which the race must pass 
from man to super-man — to be able to over- 
come physical limitation, death and the 
grave — is that hunger and thirst after right- 
eousness, and the fulfilling of the Law of Love 
toward all our fellowmen, which awakens 
our spiritual senses, till being made perfect 
in love, we are borne by this circumstance or 
that, on the tide of that great Law of Life, to 
which distance is no barrier, back to the one 
perfect love relation for us, and we can see 
as with the eyes of God, the purity of all his 
works, and come to want God with us in 
every thought and act of life, and thus be 
able to use the law effectively as it operates 
in our present state of existence. 

That the physiological result is effected by 
the union of electrical and spiritual power is 
made clear enough. Just what the nature of 
the process is cannot be so certainly affirmed, 
but to me it seems reasonable to think of it 
simply as a mild and gradual process of 
electrolysis — disintegration by means of the 
electrical current — finally leaving us in pos- 

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session of bodies of the more etherial sub- 
stance that we are told occupy the interstices 
of our coarser physical bodies. This power 
of the electrical current over certain sub- 
stances we know has been experimented with 
in the medical world as a means of disinte- 
grating tumors and calculi, but a prominent 
specialist in electrical therapeutics tells me 
that it is not practical for this purpose for 
the reason that if a current sufficiently strong 
to effect the diseased parts is used, it also 
breaks down the surrounding healthy tissues. 
But this effect is just what would be antici- 
pated and required (produced of course by 
an almost imperceptibly gradual process) to 
liberate us from the grosser physical matter 
of our bodies, and cause them to be trans- 
formed into the spiritual state without being 
put off in death. 

A summary of the Biblical data as to there 
being a complement for every person; the 
reasons given why the measure and quality 
of love necessary to work the transformation 
of the body can exist only between two such 
individuals; the purpose mentioned in the 
2nd. chapter of Malachi of God's making 
"one" being that "he might seek a godly 

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seed", etc. but serve to confirm and supple- 
ment Darwin's theory of the importance of 
sexual selection as a factor in the evolution 
and progress of man. And the late Ernst 
Haeckel, whom we know would not base a 
conclusion on anything but the most material 
evidence, says in "The Evolution of Man":* 
"But if we bear in mind how extremely 
important a part this relation of the two 
sexes plays in the whole of organic nature, 
in the life of plants, of animals and of man; 
how the mutual attraction of the sexes, love, 
is the mainspring of the most heterogeneous 
and remarkable processes — in fact, one of the 
chief mechanical causes of the highest de- 
velopment of life — we cannot too greatly 
emphasise this tracing of love to its source, 
the attractive force of two erotic cells. . . . 
So wonderful is love, and so momentous its 
influence on the life of the soul, or on the 
different functions of the medullary tube, that 
here more than anywhere else the 'super- 
natural' result seems to mock any attempt 
at natural explanation. Yet comparative 
evolution leads us clearly and indubitably to 
the first source of love — the affinity of two 

* Vol. II, pp. 695-696. 

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different erotic cells, the sperm-cell and ovum 
(erotic chemotropism) . " 

If Haeckel, honest in his conclusions from 
tangible evidences alone, could have grasped 
the fact that the spiritual reality is the first 
cause of things material, these wonderful 
results which he could plainly see to be the 
effects of love would not have mocked "any 
attempt at natural explanation. " Right in 
this confession he unconsciously admits the 
inability of physical science, unaided by 
spiritual understanding, to fathom the mean- 
ing of existence and light the way for the 
continual advancement of mankind. 

Does not this attraction between the maie 
and female cells, of which Haeckel speaks, 
answer to the attraction between the positive 
and negative elements of electricity? And 
have we not then in this "erotic chemotrop- 
ism" of Haeckel; in the modern electro- 
magnetic theory of matter ; in the allegorical 
accounts of the thunder and lightning asso- 
ciated with the Holy Mountain; and in 
Ezekiel's symbolical reference to electricity 
as the vehicle of the very Spirit of Life Itself, 
a series of related evidences sufficient to con- 
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than creative possibilities of this fire of the 
Lord — this physical manifestation of the 
Christos — when employed with an intelligent 
understanding of its nature and purpose, and 
under the right spiritual conditions as "HOLI- 
NESS UNTO THE LORD" (LAW), even 
to the extent of causing our bodies to attain 
to the spiritual state without passing through 
death? For if the scientist could trace to 
"erotic chemotropism " — the beginnings of 
love — such "supernatural" results in the 
physical organism, through the medullary 
tube (the earliest form of the spinal marrow), 
what may we not look for from the principle 
of sexual selection carried to its ultimate 
issue in reunited soul complements, whose 
love has been chastened and intensified, 
whose Spirits must have found their home in 
God ere they could recognize each other; 
who thus in purity of thought combine the 
power of the spiritual and physical reality of 
this Creative Energy, and do not "limit the 
Holy one of Israel" in power to fulfill his 
covenant by refusing to believe it possible to 
be done. And owing to the fact that this 
power is seen to be available only through 
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the unity of physical and spiritual science; 
to read a new meaning in life's experiences, 
and catch the trend of the whole creation 
plan? 

We find the active principle and motive 
power of life to be love, and its fruition hap- 
piness; this in greater measure as we con- 
tinually ascend toward the glories that "eye 
hath not seen, neither ear heard", but the 
vistas of which will open before us as we 
make real in our lives the extent of the 
possibilities just next beyond, which our 
present light reveals along our path. 

We are well aware that it was not Haeckers 
thought that there was any spiritual power 
manifested in the force which he terms "erotic 
chemotropism ,, 5 but rather that the soul 
itself was but the result of certain phenomena 
of matter, and ceased to exist at death. 
However, our interest centers not around his 
conclusions, but rather his observations as to 
the facts of the remarkable power of this 
Creative Force, whose decision as to the 
importance of such discoveries we know 
would not rest on any but the most satis- 
factory evidence from a materialistic point 
of view, bringing more strongly into the 

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light the solid facts to stand an enduring 
monument to the real efficacy of the Life 
Force to accomplish its creative, evolutionary 
and re-creative work in the world. Thus we 
see the reference to the Christos, "whose 
goings forth have been from of old from 
everlasting ", descending into matter to re- 
deem it, and lift up all to a consciousness of 
God, is not merely a mystical phrase, but 
does indeed denote the divine reality of a 
scientific fact; and the scientist who is suf- 
ficiently spiritual, or the religionist who is 
sufficiently unbiased to study the subject in 
its twofold physical and spiritual aspect, is 
justified in drawing different conclusions from 
the same facts than Haeckel has done. 

For the sake of those who may yet be in- 
clined to regard the belief that we may live 
eternally without passing through death as 
merely a visionary theory or feminine fancy, 
may I be permitted to refer again on this 
subject to the thought of Judge Troward, 
whose opinions are held in esteem by an 
international following. That he really be- 
lieved this to be possible is clear from these 
words : 

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building-up, and what makes the world of 
today a different world from that of the 
ichthyosaurus and the pterodactyl, is the 
successive building up of more and more 
complex organisms, culminating at last in the 
production of Man as an organism, both 
physically and mentally capable of express- 
ing the life of the Supreme Intelligence by 
means of Individual Consciousness. Why, 
then, should not the Power, which is able 
to carry on the race as a perpetually improv- 
ing expression of itself, do the same thing in 
the individual? That is the question with 
which we have to deal; in other words, Why 
need the individual die? Why should he not 
go on in a perpetual expansion? 

"This question may seem absurd in the 
light of past experience. Those who believe 
only in blind forces, answer that death is the 
law of Nature, and those who believe in the 
Divine Wisdom, answer that it is the ap- 
pointment of God. But, strange as it may 
seem, both these answers are wrong. That 
death should be the ultimate law of Nature 
contradicts the principle of continuity as 
exemplified in the Lifeward tendency of evo- 
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emphatically denied by the Bible, for that 
tells us that he that has the power of death 
is the Devil (Hebrews 2:14). There is no 
beating about the bush; not God but the 
Devil sends death. There is no getting out 
of the plain words/ ' 

Anyone not familiar with that invaluable 
book — "Bible Mystery and Bible Meaning 1 ' 
— should not fail to acquaint themselves with 
it. The fact that to the author was not re- 
vealed the exact method of this "Lifeward" 
Law's operation (the reunion of soul com- 
plements through spiritual evolution), which 
brings about the conditions that make it 
possible for the Law to act upon the substance 
of the body directly as well as through the 
mind, and that in consequence, his work sets 
forth only an exposition of the general prin- 
ciple in its universal application, in no wise 
confutes the interpretation of the particular 
application set forth in this volume; but 
instead, strengthens the evidence of its truth, 
in view of the fact that his conclusions drawn 
from study along general lines only, coincide 
so perfectly, as far as he has carried them, 
with the underlying truth of the individual 
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proach. His reference to the Devil as being 
the cause of death is verified in the fact that 
only by overcoming the Devil in this par- 
ticular — wrong and impure thoughts in regard 
to sex — can we lay hold of this power that is 
provided for the continuous life of the body. 

Does any doubtful one still say: "Would 
you tell us that this of all things could be the 
means of the eternal life of our bodies ?" 
Remember that this was God's provision for 
creating the physical body you now have; 
and that this manifestation of his Creative 
Power, when the evidence is in from both 
sources — material and spiritual — should be 
seen to be his plan for continually re-creating 
it, need hardly be surprising. We see this 
foreshadowed in the sign of the covenant. 
Why should the phallus be chosen rather than 
any other organ of the body to bind the 
covenant between God and man? Does not 
the time-honored rite of circumcision now 
seem to point to the correctness of the reve- 
lation of the symbology of the Tabernacle ? 

Moreover, what is really more impractic- 
able about living eternally than about living 
one day? Life itself is the wonder; but we 
do not stop to consider this because we see 

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it about us continually; but one compelled 
to speak could no more convincingly contend 
that we may not live eternally than he could 
accurately explain just how we live at all. 
Yet we do live. Death is the unnatural 
thing; and we have lived in the delusion that 
men must always die. But this is only 
following the natural order of physical, men- 
tal and spiritual evolution, for "The last 
enemy that shall be destroyed is death." 



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CHAPTER VI 
A Glance at Fundamentals 

WITH certain individuals a satisfactory 
standard of living may be sufficient to 
inspire them to live to their highest, but with 
others — many, I believe — a satisfactory 
theory about life is quite essential to enable 
them to find their poise, and thus be ready to 
live their best lives. I am therefore pre- 
senting my understanding of some few funda- 
mental principles, which I hope may be 
helpful to others. 

In connection with the theory of evil and 
its origin we frequently hear the expression 
"mortal mind" as though it were something 
that belonged to us as human beings apart 
from God, and many of the explanations we 
hear given of mortal mind and its effects are 
very confusing to those inclined to weigh the 
meaning of words. 

In the first place, there is no such thing as 
mortal mind. All the mind in the universe 
is the mind of God; our mind is just a part 

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of that mind, and this so-called " mortal 
mind" is only our limited appropriation of 
the infinite mind of which ours is a part. 
This limitation is due to our having evolved 
from lower forms of physical life, and lower 
stages of mentality, resulting as yet in an 
incomplete state of development in com- 
parison to what we are destined to become 
as we approach nearer a realization of our 
real nature as one with God. 

Take for example the mind of an infant in 
comparison with that of a mature man. It 
is impossible for the babe to comprehend 
everything at once. It has to develop its 
faculties gradually through experience and 
observation, but there is no blame in con- 
nection with this undeveloped state of the 
baby's mind. It simply has not had suffi- 
cient time to develop. Neither is there any 
blame in connection with our so-called 
"mortal mind". It is only incomplete, and 
has yet to unfold powers of spiritual under- 
standing to greater degrees. 

This explains the unreality of evil in the 
absolute sense. Evil is nothing but the mis- 
conception of truth in manifestation, and 
arises from the varying degrees of incom- 

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pleteness of the perfect being that man is 
designed to be. Everything done by him — 
that which is called good or evil — is originally 
caused by the urge of the Spirit within, seek- 
ing for expression through an instrument as 
yet very imperfect. This statement gives no 
license to the evil-doer, for as long as he 
gives expression to this lack of development 
called evil, he must of necessity reap the 
reward of this evil. Nor does it argue that 
wrongdoing should go unrestrained, but that 
such restraint should look not only to the 
welfare of others concerned, but to the uplift 
of the offender as well ; and not be established 
or carried out on the principle that anything 
is gained in any way through retaliation or 
vengeance. 

It all resolves itself into the fact that cre- 
ation is not yet complete. God made the 
world and brought man from lower beginnings 
to a state of individual consciousness, and a 
measure of intelligence, and now He is solicit- 
ing man's cooperation to appropriate the 
powers of infinite life which He has put 
within each soul. He is striving to make us 
realize his presence within ourselves, and 
give expression to this divinity now, in this 

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life, not delaying it to an imagined distant 
heaven. 

Referring again to the little child, through 
infancy and its early years the mother's 
watchfulness surrounds it very closely, but 
as it approaches years of maturity, she allows 
it to depend upon itself; or if she does not, 
the child's individuality and independence 
will not be properly developed. It seems to 
me just the same way with us as God's 
children. Through all those ages while we 
were developing an intelligence, God brought 
us along the way without our knowing much 
about it, I fancy. But having arrived at a 
degree of self consciousness, it is as if God 
said to each of us: "Now it is time for you 
to put to use the power and ability I have 
given you, that you may develop your own 
individuality and higher states of conscious- 
ness, until you come to the full realization of 
what you are — an individual personality, yet 
identical with the Universal God — and the 
joy that this knowledge will bring. For if 
you should not develop through use the 
faculties already given, it would be impos- 
sible for you to attain any higher state of 
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are still bound by misunderstanding and 
limitation; your life is not complete and 
joyous as I planned it for you from the 
beginning. But you have a part to do. You 
must work with Me from this time on, and 
while you shall find eventually that all power 
is from Me, yet you will see how we are one, 
and still you may have an individual per- 
sonality and consciousness, given you by 
this method of development, which is the 
only means that will obtain the desired end. 
The meaning of it all may at times baffle 
your understanding and distress you, but keep 
faith in my good plan for you, and it will be 
plain in time, and you will be grateful for 
it all." 

So I repeat it is this same urge from within 
which causes different results — good and so- 
called evil — in differently organized and 
developed brains and minds, just as the same 
white light will appear red, blue or green 
through differently colored globes. This may 
seem impossible at first thought, but that is 
just what it amounts to when we think far 
enough back. All of what we call the lower 
emotions arise from, and are, in greater or 
less measure, excesses of impulses that have 

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had their place in the creation of the human 
being, in bringing us from the lower forms 
of life to what we now are, and as we rise in 
the scale of being and better realize our unity 
with all life, these same tendencies become 
transformed, until, for instance, we find the 
highest outgrowth of the impulse of selfish- 
ness causing a man to lay down his life for 
his friends, because under certain conditions 
he would rather do it than not. 

This is why there is no evil in reality. 
What we look on as evil is evil in a relative 
sense, and is only the result of an incomplete, 
growing condition, though we are apt to for- 
get this as we look out over the turmoil and 
sorrows of earth. Nor would I underrate the 
fact that evil as we are accustomed to speak 
of it is a lamentable thing with which to be 
associated for those who have passed beyond 
that stage of development in which the urge 
of the Spirit causes men to do things, which, 
to those higher in the scale, seem horrible, 
terrorizing, but this is the only explanation 
that is consistent with reason throughout, and 
it certainly clears the atmosphere for me in 
thinking of this big question. 

In regard to our souls and their relation to 

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God, I can best explain my thought by an 
illustration. Imagine a glass filled only with 
air and sunlight. Let the glassful of air and 
sunlight represent a soul, saying that the air 
is God within the soul functioning as mind, 
and the sunlight is God as Spirit. Of course 
it is really all one and the same Spirit, but 
manifesting itself in different ways. As the 
air and sunlight in the glass would be just a 
part of the air and sunlight in the room, 
that in the room would represent God in the 
whole universe. You can readily see then 
what your soul is. It is just your individual 
share of God's mind and Spirit to have and 
use. This covers the definition of soul as 
being the limit of consciousness, and shows 
how at the same time you are in God and God 
is in you. Your life is your conscious share 
of God's life, and the fact that you have this 
individual part of God to realize and enjoy 
carries with it the responsibility of choice, 
and of giving expression to this divinity 
which is in you, or which you are. The 
garden of your own soul is for you personally 
to tend. 

Thus we see we have a real part to take in 
the perfecting of our lives, and in doing this 

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we have many things to experience which 
seem very hard when our conception of God's 
plan is confused. But when from the heights 
our eyes behold the completed circle of the 
bright bow of promise, and we grasp the plan 
in its entirety, we can see whither we are 
tending and why, and the reward is seen to 
be more than worth the struggle. Of this 
we shall be fully convinced when we have 
reached a certain point by following faith- 
fully all the light we have. We gain more 
light by deeply desiring more, knowing that 
it is to be found within ourselves because 
God is there, and that we can find it if we 
earnestly seek for it, for "he that seeketh, 
findeth, and to him that knocketh, it shall 
be opened.' ' 

Salvation must come to mankind through 
each individual's having a knowledge of his 
own true nature as a part of God. His 
failure to realize this, or the idea of separation, 
gives him the belief in evil as a power or 
thing of itself, and before man can begin to 
live a life of unhindered progress, he must 
realize that there is no other force in the uni- 
verse but God, and before he can enjoy a rich, 
full life, he must understand that God's will 

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toward him is always good; that God is 
Love. Jesus taught us this, but we have too 
largely disregarded it. We have looked upon 
God as a being who could be approached 
only through the merits of the vicarious suf- 
fering and death of a mediator. God does 
not want us to think we must go to Him 
through such a mediator. In fact, we have 
not found the vital sense of unity with God 
as long as we feel that we cannot go to Him 
direct. The only place in which a mediator 
enters into the great plan of life is where 
one with greater light gives it to his brother 
man, as Jesus did, to enable him to recognize 
for himself his identity with God, thus join- 
ing in consciousness man and God. 

Jesus taught us that we should glorify God, 
but would you consider it to be glorifying 
even a human friend to attribute to his 
character such atrocious qualities as the 
traditional interpretation of the Bible has 
attributed to God? The crucifixion has been 
taken to mean that Jesus was a sacrifice to 
appease God's wrath, and make an atone- 
ment for our sins, to save us from the con- 
sequences of the "fall". But what was the 
"fall"? Simply the process of our receiving 

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physical bodies through which to manifest 
life. In this sense Jesus' life and teaching 
does save us from the consequences of the 
"fall", which consequences were a sense of 
separateness from God, but no wrath on the 
part of God. As said before, our unfinished 
state in the evolutionary process has given 
rise to the idea of this separateness from 
God, and God's Kingdom cannot come on 
earth as long as such a lack of understanding 
of the wisdom and goodness of his plan of 
creation prevails in the minds of men, and 
they continue to consider any part of their 
being — mind or body — as separate from God, 
or anything that God has made or instituted 
to be scorned as unholy. It was indeed 
Jesus' mission to mediate between God and 
man in this sense. The sacrifice of his body 
was to teach us with sufficient force that it 
might never escape the memory of man till 
the understanding could grasp the fact that 
God gave all, even his body (matter), that we 
might enjoy the fullness of conscious life; 
that our bodies being a part of Himself, are 
consequently holy, and that we are destined 
to inherit life eternal without death of the 
body when we have been made perfect in 

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love, and everything in our lives, our bodies 
and all their functions have been brought 
fully into subjection to the Spirit — have been 
"lifted up" and given back to God, redeemed 
by the knowledge that all is God; that all 
that God has made is good and pure in its 
spiritual conception, and is thus to be trans- 
formed by this thought about it. Jesus 
realized this truth, but knew the world did 
not; hence his willingness to make the sac- 
rifice. God's nature is to give, not to with- 
hold; He seeks to give to men through men; 
and so perforce who sees the truth will give it 
though he be scorned and spat upon, and per- 
secuted even unto death. 

The lower animal creation gives us the clue 
to the beginnings of our physical manifesta- 
tion ; Jesus lifted up upon the cross portrays 
the tremendous truth that these physical 
bodies are a part of God, and all their func- 
tions therefore wholly pure; here the two 
points that determine the line which indicates 
the progress of mankind from its lowest 
beginnings to its transcendent destiny. We 
are told that at the moment Christ's great 
sacrifice was finished the vail of the Temple 
was rent in twain from top to bottom (the 

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mystery of the Holy of Holies of the body was 
made plain for us to comprehend as soon as 
our understanding, illumined by the Spirit, 
could grasp the truth), and the earth did 
quake and the rocks rent, emphasizing the 
oneness of the universal substance. 

When people realize that the Bible is telling 
them that God and man are One; that the 
Life Principle in the universe is the same 
life and power that is in them, they may 
learn to use this power to better all their 
conditions of life. The power is there, infi- 
nite in the sense that there is a limitless 
amount to be used as we gradually learn how 
to use it. This is the part of the evolutionary 
process depending on us — to learn to use this 
power rightly and cooperate with it. We 
cannot be relieved of our part in this matter 
and still have the joy of individual life and 
growth. 

It is also necessary to get clearly in mind 
that the natural order of things in God's 
plan is for good and nothing but good to come 
to us, and that the only thing which keeps it 
from coming is some obstruction in ourselves 
originating in a lack of knowledge of the 
whole truth about life. When we under- 

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stand that we were all destined to be happy, 
and that the Law of Life is always working 
for our highest good, even though it has to 
work correctively at times, we will attract 
good by our right understanding and think- 
ing. People have not realized the possibil- 
ities of the mind to work them good or ill. 
It is essential that we understand ourselves, 
and bear in mind that we are indeed made in 
the image and likeness of God, with the power 
of the Infinite at our disposal to work us 
good when we understand it, or ill (correc- 
tion) when wrongly used. We must realize 
that God's plan from the beginning of cre- 
ation is happiness for every soul, and that 
everything we experience along the way of 
life is simply coincident with the stage 
through which we are passing; that trouble 
and sorrow will pass away from us with the 
coming of greater light, which enables us to 
correct the errors in ourselves. But if we 
hold the mistaken thought that we are help- 
less, and have nothing to do about it, our 
errors are not corrected. "And I say unto 
you, Ask and it shall be given you; seek and 
ye shall find; knock and it shall be opened 
unto }rou." 

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A right understanding of God's nature is 
the crux of the whole matter. When we 
really believe that God is good, we shall 
expect good from Him, providing we are 
living in harmony with the laws of good. 
When we seek the light within ourselves and 
realize that God is the loving and all power- 
ful Father that Jesus taught us He is ; when 
we learn to find Him in the depths of our 
own souls, to talk with Him, to go to Him 
for help in everything (not failing to do our 
part when we can see it) ; when we can 
explain to Him every situation that troubles 
us, no matter how insignificant or how great, 
and if it be beyond our present knowledge or 
power to control, leave it to Him to make it 
all come right, and then TRUST and REST 
in the assurance that God really is our friend 
— that He wants to help us, and that his love 
and power is more than equal to the occasion 
so that all will be properly taken care of, 
then we shall have reached a stage from 
which we can proceed to gain greater light 
and power without the suffering through 
which we have passed to get to this point. 
It is essential to banish from our minds com- 
pletely the thought that we have to pray to 

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God to keep evil from coming upon us. The 
thing that we are living in, walking in and 
breathing in, and that is trying to flow into 
us and through us is love and good of every 
description. It is a question of our honoring 
God with a sufficiently good opinion of Him 
to believe and trust that He will do the vety 
best things for us that we will let Him do. 

Anyone might be willing to accept the 
benefits of the Law without conforming to 
the conditions under which good is naturally 
attracted, but we do not draw good in that 
way; and furthermore, the thing desired 
would not prove to be good to us as long as 
the condition in ourselves which obstructs it 
were not discovered and removed. This is 
the underlying truth of the belief that God 
punishes us for our sins. The laws of God 
(good) do of necessity keep from us the good 
we seek as long as there is some wrong con- 
dition existing in us which keeps the good 
from flowing through us, but the whole plan 
is remedial and kind in that it teaches us that 
there is something in ourselves that will keep 
us from happiness until it is removed. The 
Law is unerring in its working. Good must 
flow through us through force of desire (and 

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using the means at our hands, of course) by 
the law that like attracts like, in just the 
proportion that all barriers are removed from 
within us. And by the same accuracy of the 
working of the law, our good cannot be de- 
layed after we are ready for it. "We can 
never be free until we have thoroughly 
learned the lesson that we cannot miss our 
good. . . . No day can come or go without 
enriching us to the full extent to which we 
have developed our capacity to receive.' ' 
The thing for us to give our attention to is 
making ourselves right. 

The hindrance within us may be found to 
be one or more of many things. It may be 
ill will toward someone — lack of forgiveness. 
It may be anxiety or grief; it may be nothing 
that we are accustomed to call sin; it may 
be merely a great desire to help people when 
we have not yet found the proper expression 
for this desire, causing tension and restless- 
ness. Good, in the broad sense, does not 
mean only what has been considered moral. 
God and Nature and Life are big things, and 
we are invited to open our eyes and study 
them as such. 

The coming of the Kingdom of Heaven on 

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earth must be through the spiritually developed 
individual, and this condition cannot be 
brought about, except by man's right under- 
standing of God's nature, and his relation to 
God, and by his looking within for the light 
and following his individual guidance no mat- 
ter what persecution it may perchance in- 
volve. There is nothing else of so much 
importance as that one should be true to his 
highest sense of right no matter what people 
may think or say. It is not a matter into 
which praise or blame enters. The impor- 
tant thing to realize is that you have a 
straight course to pursue — to follow the light 
of the Spirit within you — and let the conse- 
quences take care of themselves. This may 
require that you stand alone many times, 
and through seemingly dark days as far as 
human encouragement is concerned, but you 
will sooner or later find it to be worth the 
struggle if you do stand, and what seemed 
hard will become easy. 

Learn to look for the truth within yourself; 
develop your interior powers for perceiving 
the truth by communing with the Spirit 
within you. When everyone has learned to 
do this, the world will be light indeed, for 

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everyone will have found the light within 
himself and will let it shine. We all owe it 
to one another to be ourselves and contribute 
whatever light we may get in our individual 
way (for we are all just a little different from 
each other), and thus do our part in helping 
to enlighten all; and no matter how ideal the 
standard raised aloft in the cause of the 
immortal truth, not until attention is directed 
from organization, system, church and creed 
to the necessity for each one's applying the 
truth individually and making himself over by 
it as the only means of soul growth, shall we 
be free from a repetition of the history of all 
movements founded on the teachings of the 
seers of the past — the light of the prophetic 
message veiled in priestly ceremony, the vital 
spark all but extinguished, and the masses 
blindly groping for the way. 



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The Way of Attainment 

WHEN a lawyer of the Pharisees asked 
the Master which was the great com- 
mandment in the law, Jesus answered : ' 'Thou 
shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy 
heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy 
mind. This is the first and great command- 
ment. And the second is like unto it, Thou 
shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. On these 
two commandments hang all the law and the 
prophets." And when this is said, all is 
said, if we would but lay it to heart, for "Love 
worketh no ill to his neighbor : therefore love 
is the fulfilling of the law." But how earn- 
estly do people generally heed this instruc- 
tion, with all that loving their neighbor as 
themselves implies? How thoroughly does 
mutual sympathy, fair dealing and helpful- 
ness on the part of all in every walk of life, 
extend to every fellow-creature regardless of 
his race or station, be it low or high? Yet it 
is just this simple, all embracing love and 

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kindness that is required to fulfill the law 
and develop us. In this we see the justice of 
this great natural and eternal Law of Life, 
whether written or unwritten. If its require- 
ments were concerned with station, or even 
with hard tests of learning, it would not be 
fair alike to all. But the lowliest can forgive 
and love, and rank and erudition of them- 
selves^will not further us one step along the 
way. 

I would not advocate the practice of lying 
sleepless in a warm bed at night, tortured by 
the thought that doubtless many in the 
world were at the same time suffering from 
cold and privation, such as I was wont to do 
before I understood the principle that sym- 
pathizing wrongly with people's suffering does 
not help them, and only incapacitates us for 
rendering real service; nevertheless, the mea- 
sure of love and sympathy for all our fellow- 
men that impels to this solicitude for the 
comfort and welfare of all is absolutely 
necessary if we would enter upon the Way of 
Attainment. As long as we are content to 
seek happiness and comfort for ourselves 
alone, we are not in the way of finding hap- 
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happiness, and there is nothing wrong about 
wanting it; the desire is wholesome and 
right, but the Law of Life operates in such a 
way that we cannot enter the paradise wait- 
ing for us until we have been made perfect in 
love and the simple explanation of this is 
that universal, altruistic love is actually the 
means necessary to develop our spiritual 
senses to such a degree that we can be guided 
unerringly to the one personal love relation 
that means completeness for us — rest unto 
our souls — and which produces a quality of 
happiness and contentment that enables us 
to give still more effective help and uplift to 
the race. 

Being made perfect in love implies an ex- 
pansion of soul great enough to forgive any- 
one for anything. Does someone say this is 
impossible? No, it is not impossible. It 
may be very hard at times, but the measure 
of the effort required to do this is our own 
confidential report on just how far we have 
progressed along the Way. If you do not 
feel in your heart that you can do this, work 
with yourself until you can. There is no use 
to try to build the superstructure of a beau- 
tiful life on an imperfect foundation, 

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First reach a decision with yourself as to 
what you most want to do. Is it your great- 
est desire to live the highest life and form a 
beautiful character, or are you more con- 
cerned about securing vengeance — socalled 
" satisfaction " — for every wrong, real or 
imaginary? If this latter is your present 
state of mind, you will probably have to 
suffer in one way or another for awhile yet; 
that is, until you have decided that to be 
right in every way is the thing most to be 
desired. If you already aspire to this, but 
find it difficult under certain conditions to 
relinquish all feeling of bitterness, then seek 
a quiet place alone, become perfectly still, 
close your eyes, let your thoughts retire 
within where you can get a good perspective 
of the whole situation, and think quietly. 
Think of the truths mentioned in the fore- 
going chapter; think of the greatness of 
tenderness; the littleness of hate, and see if 
you do not find your soul big enough even to 
pity the offender, and to cause you to want 
to help him find the Way. 

Analyze your feelings on each occasion 
that arises to learn just how you feel and why 
you feel so. By doing this you will discover 

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just where your weakness lies, and will know 
where your efforts for reform must be di- 
rected. Then when you have gotten the 
lesson there is in it for you, cease to think 
of the incident. Do not be discouraged if it 
takes hard work. The hard work in this 
case will be in learning to let go of some feeling 
of rancor you are tempted to cherish. But 
continue to try until you feel that you are 
master of your spirit, and can quickly let go 
of any unprofitable impulse. "He that is 
slow to anger is better than the mighty ; and 
he that ruleth his spirit than he that taketh 
a city" (Proverbs 16:32). 

To forgive, however, does not mean that 
we must feel approval of the fault of the one 
forgiven. We are not required to lower our 
standard of right until it can include the 
misdeeds of those less developed. But while 
not loving the deed, we should, nevertheless, 
love the struggling, evolving doer of the deed, 
remembering the divinity inherent within 
him, which is the common heritage of each 
and all, though so often unrecognized and 
unexpressed. But this is the very condition 
which calls for kindly service on the part of 
those who are farther advanced, to help him 

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find his higher self. If, while knowing an 
act to be wrong, we can take the larger view, 
and bear in mind the primal cause of the 
act — the impulse for greater life and happi- 
ness (which all alike are seeking), misunder- 
stood and misdirected — and can look beyond 
the deed, and wish to help the one whose 
unenlightened condition caused him to so 
act, then we may know we have truly for- 
given. 

The Psalmist tells us that the secret of the 
Lord is with them that fear Him, and He will 
show them his covenant. So here we have it; 
just the same things we have had for two 
thousand years, but have not used suffi- 
ciently to gain the full benefit. Jesus said, 
"Blessed are they that do hunger and thirst 
after righteousness, for they shall be filled.' ' 
The mere knowledge of this statement will 
not cause us to grow. We must feel the 
hunger and the thirst for lightness, purity 
and the virtues that we know to be necessary 
for building a genuine character. But the 
longing must be for the qualities themselves, 
independent of any reward or punishment in 
connection with the matter. When one 
knows within his own heart that he would 

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rather live a wholesome, honest, helpful life 
even though this might involve no reward, 
instead of living a deceitful, common, selfish 
life and receive a reward (if such conditions 
could be possible), then he is on the Way of 
Attainment ; and there is no use living on in 
the delusion that any less earnest devotion to 
the cause of truth and right, for the sake of 
truth and right itself, will ever enable one to 
attain this happiness of completion. 

And it is not keeping the eyes fixed upon 
the reward that will bring it, but rather the 
searching of our hearts, and the repeated 
endeavor (no matter how many times we may 
have failed), to live to our very highest 
standard of life. For if we think only of the 
reward, the spiritual development is not being 
furthered which alone can bring it, and we 
are day dreaming of the possession of some- 
thing we cannot have until we have paid the 
price. When the heart and purpose is right, 
the price is not hard, because a loving heart 
and high purpose that impels to kind and 
worthy deeds, with patience and trust that 
keeps faith in God's love, and in the unerring 
working of the Law, which will bring us our 
good as soon as we are fully ready for it, 

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though it seem long deferred, is the price. 
And if our spiritual aspirations are such as 
they must be in order to give us the necessary 
development, these are the qualities we shall 
strive to attain independently of any reward 
attached. We are justified, however, in 
• thankfully resting in the assurance that high 
purpose and endeavor does bear the fruit of 
happiness. 

The truth involved in this principle men- 
tioned is, I believe, the chief reason why 
"the mystery of God" is also veiled in the 
New Testament ; the emphasis put upon the 
cultivation of the virtues so often mentioned, 
and the overcoming of our ordinary faults, 
for this is what must be accomplished first, 
in a sufficient measure, in any event; and 
when we honestly strive to follow Jesus' 
teaching, the "anointing of the Spirit" will 
teach us the deeper meaning intended for us 
when the circumstances of our lives call it 
forth. I do not believe that Jesus even told 
his disciples all things in plain words, or why 
did he say in his last talk with them: "I 
have yet many things to say unto you, but 
ye cannot bear them now. Howbeit when 
he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide 

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you into all truth"? (John 16:12-13). And 
again: "These things have I spoken unto 
you in proverbs: but the time cometh when 
I shall no more speak unto you in proverbs, 
but I shall show you plainly of the Father' ' 
(John 16:25). Since this was the last time 
Jesus talked with his disciples, he must have 
meant that he (the Christos) would show 
them plainly of the Father by means of the 
testimony of the Spirit; and indeed, in John 
14:25-26 we read: "These things have I 
spoken unto you, being yet present with you, 
but the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, 
whom the Father will send in my name, he 
shall teach you all things, and bring all things 
to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said 
unto you." 

And so we find it everywhere when we are 
able to receive it, while the form of presen- 
tation of the parables affords a lesson to 
those as yet able to understand only the 
literal form of statement. In fact, Paul says 
in effect to the Corinthians that the reason 
for his not speaking the hidden wisdom to 
them was that they had not yet applied the 
first principles of spiritual growth. He says, 
in 1 Cor. 2:4-10, 14, and 3:1-3: 

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"My speech and my preaching was not 
with enticing words of man's wisdom, but in 
demonstration of the Spirit and of power : 

"That your faith should not stand in the 
wisdom of men, but in the power of God. 

"Howbeit we speak wisdom among them 
that are perfect: yet not the wisdom of this 
world, nor of the princes of this world, that 
come to nought. 

"But we speak the wisdom of God in a 
mystery, even the hidden wisdom, which God 
ordained before the world unto our glory : 

"Which none of the princes of this world 
knew : for had they known it, they would 
not have crucified the Lord of Glory. 

"But as it is written, Eye hath not seen nor 
ear heard, neither have entered into the heart 
of man, the things which God hath prepared 
for them that love him. 

"But God hath revealed them unto us by 
his Spirit: for the Spirit searcheth all things, 
yea the deep things of God. 

"But the natural man receiveth not the 
things of the Spirit of God: for they are 
foolishness unto him: neither can he know 
them, because they are spiritually discerned. 

"And I, brethren, could not speak unto you 

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as unto spiritual, but as unto carnal, even as 
unto babes in Christ. 

"I have fed you with milk and not with 
meat : for hitherto ye were not able to bear 
it, neither yet now are ye able. 

"For ye are yet carnal: for whereas there 
is among you envying, and strife, and divi- 
sions, are ye not carnal and walk as men?" 

It is a question of the honest effort to 
make real one's ideals in daily living; the 
j^earning for the consciousness of genuineness 
in one's self, which is not satisfied with any 
amount of commendation from others unless 
one knows within his own soul that he has 
met himself face to face, has learned wherein 
his fault or weakness lies, has striven and has 
overcome. 

This, my sisters and brothers of the Roman 
Catholic faith, is where your church puts an 
obstacle in your way of attainment, which is 
well nigh impossible to surmount, for it offers 
3^ou in the confessional a substitute for this 
independent, personal struggle. Do not 
think this is said with the intent to wound. 
God forbid. But I should not be kind and 
fair to you if I did not endeavor to awaken 
you to the fact that faith in anything to alter 

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the effect of a violation of the law of truth 
and right, beside your own sincere purpose to 
overcome the cause which exists in yourself, 
tends to moral and spiritual blindness — the 
very thing we must strive to overcome if we 
are going to develop spiritual strength — and 
the little falsehoods that you seem to regard 
so lightly, thinking no doubt a confession is 
all sufficient to overcome their power, will, 
by the unerring working of this law, deaden 
your soul to the recognition of truth, leaving 
you without the consciousness of an inner 
guide. But the Kingdom of Heaven is 
within you, dependent on a state of con- 
sciousness, whether in this life or the next, 
and before you can find it, you must be led 
into it by this inward monitor. So do not 
kill it; do not quench the Spirit within you; 
learn to listen for its leading. But whatever 
may be the purpose, this is not the result 
obtained by the confessional. 

When we fail of our highest standards of 
living, as we all do many times, we should go 
direct to God with the sincere purpose of 
receiving strength in the future. But when 
there is the thought in the mind of the of- 
fender that all can be made right by con- 

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fession whenever the offense is repeated, can 
you not see how it turns your confessional 
into a license for evil doing, and cheats you 
of the personal effort that is necessary to 
develop you ? For nothing else can take the 
place of the individual searching of one's self, 
and the talking alone with God, or waiting 
with Him in the Silence to develop spiritual 
strength. We might as well hope to gain 
physical strength by letting someone else eat 
our food for us, as to hope to gain spiritual 
strength while thinking to evade the conse- 
quences of our own thoughts and deeds 
through the merits of any vicarious agency. 
If there are souls of strength and sterling 
worth among you, you are such because of 
your own innate sense of right and wrong 
unspoiled, as in the case of Luther, whose 
sense of right could not tolerate the immoral 
principle of selling privileges in advance for 
men to commit sins — unspoiled, I say, re- 
gardless of, rather than quickened because of 
the fundamental teaching of your church. 
For this lively sense of moral rectitude and 
such a fearless courage are not the product of 
the principle that underlies the confessional, 
which benumbs the undeveloped souls of men 

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with the teaching that there can be in exist- 
ence any power, vested in any man or insti- 
tution, that can grant them absolution from 
the law of justice and eternal right. 

And may this further truth be borne in 
upon the souls of priests and nuns who are 
worthy in purpose, who in a mistaken idea of 
the way, have been willing to sacrifice all for 
the sake of their highest sense of duty, and 
to gain the highest spiritual good; that God 
created all men alike for this completed 
happiness, and instead of being gained, the 
highest good is lost by continuing to go 
counter to God's plan. 

Perhaps someone feels that his particular 
lot is just a little too hard to make possible 
any progress while in it. I wish I might 
impress upon each one the truth that the 
circumstances in which we find ourselves are 
just what our particular stage of develop- 
ment calls for. There is some benefit to be 
derived from it; some aspect of the great 
Eternal Truth to be made plain to us; some 
quality to be developed ; some life lesson in 
it for us that must be mastered before we are 
through with it. I mean by this that we 
have at some time drawn this circumstance to 

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us, or may be even now drawing it to us on 
account of some incompleteness in ourselves, 
resulting in the inability to handle such a 
situation patiently and masterfully. It seems 
as though the inmost purpose of our souls, 
which lies so deep that we do not always 
recognize its presence, is demanding a chance 
to meet and gain a conscious victory over 
some weakness for which this or that par- 
ticular circumstance affords just the proper 
field of endeavor. When w r e once realize 
this, and are convinced that the way to re- 
move the undesirable condition is to examine 
ourselves and see wherein we manifest im- 
perfections of character, and inefficiency in 
dealing with the situation, then we are work- 
ing along the right lines to free ourselves from 
it. But as long as we hold the thought that 
we are helpless to change circumstances, and 
allow ourselves to drift instead of standing at 
the helm ; or as long as we fret at any cir- 
cumstance, and do not give our time to 
developing the power to meet it patiently, 
and to overcome our faults which it brings 
into evidence, we are only wasting our time 
and putting farther away the day when it 
will leave us, not to return in the same form 

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or in some other guise with the thumbed 
page of the old lesson turned up for our 
perusal. 

This should in no wise be taken to mean 
that because an adverse circumstance has 
good in it for us that we should accept it as 
a final lot, thinking that if it is good for us 
we should not try to change it. Get the 
point that the only good adversity has in it, 
after it has broadened our sympathies for 
all classes and conditions of men, and given 
us a lesson in values and proportions, is 
the opportunity for developing the power 
to work ourselves out of it, thereby increasing 
our total of merit and efficiency; and when 
a failing has been overcome, we will no longer 
attract the adverse circumstance coincident 
to it. Have an ideal; work toward it con- 
stantly; never lose sight of it except as it 
may be replaced by a higher ideal, but be 
patient in overcoming the difficulties that 
arise in your path of attainment. 

But by patience I do not mean a passive 
attitude that encourages people to impose 
upon us, which is quite as unjust to them as 
to ourselves; but rather what we might think 
of as the resultant of equal parts of forgive- 

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ness, courage and hope. Courage is not 
averse to gentleness. Indeed, it must accom- 
pany all endeavor if we expect to bring to 
pass things worth while. This lack of prac- 
tical courage to take the necessary action is 
as likely to be the failing as anything else 
that keeps one in some undesirable circum- 
stance. This is why many apparently kind 
hearted, well meaning people are oppressed 
by this or that condition. One's difficulty 
may be nothing that is ordinarily looked upon 
as a fault of character. Nevertheless, Nature 
has in mind for you the pattern of a com- 
plete, well rounded being, and your incapacity 
in any line will attract an opportunity for 
you to make that good. This should not be 
looked upon in the light of a punishment. 
That is not the idea. It is rather an oppor- 
tunity brought right to your door to attend 
the great school of experience without a 
tuition fee. Here again we see the kindness 
of the Law, for I believe there is nothing else 
which will develop you quite as thoroughly 
and effectively as just the patient, cheerful 
meeting of the daily trials in the home, office, 
school-room, factory, or wherever your oc- 
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annoyance as an opportunity for the perfect- 
ing of your character; never so much en- 
grossed in your own trials as to forget to 
sympathize with others. We are not all in 
a position to give such service as we should 
like to give, but anyone can serve with a 
kindly word and smile — the cup of cold water 
— to cheer another on his way, and this is 
truly acceptable service. 

In the training of children, if the teacher or 
mother will take a philosophical view of the 
matter, it will be much easier to be patient. 
Stop to think what it is that causes the child 
to act thus or so. What is it that causes one 
child to strike another if perhaps its toy has 
been appropriated? or one lad to pommel 
another if there has been foul play? It is 
the child's sense of justice finding expression 
without its being modified by the qualities of 
tolerance and forgiveness. But time and 
experience are required to mature these loftier 
qualities in the child. When we take this 
more comprehensive view, it is easier to be 
patient while we explain to all the young 
offenders the principle of ethics involved. 
Their wishes have been interfered with and 
they have made a demonstration of temper. 

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How much better are we doing if, because 
our wishes have been interfered with by 
their acts, we also make a demonstration of 
temper? Someone may say, "But mine was 
a just pro vocation.' ' The child also thinks 
his a just provocation, and this excusing of 
ourselves in our own sight instead of striving 
to bring ourselves up to the standard of hold- 
ing a right spirit under all circumstances, 
regardless of what anyone else may be doing, 
is just what will cause us not to grow. 

But suppose there may be someone who 
cannot honestly say within his heart that he 
feels this deep concern for the welfare of 
others, which I have mentioned — someone 
who does not feel the drawing of a high ideal 
of character building and attainment. 
Wherein lies help for such? Must he des- 
pair utterly? By no means, for God is in 
every soul He has created, only some have not 
yet become acquainted with their own souls 
and with God within. When they do, they 
too will feel this same love, this same aspira- 
tion, this same hunger and thirst after right- 
eousness, for which there is no substitute. 

How then, and where can such a one begin? 
We always have to begin just where we are; 

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we can omit no step, but the thing to do is 
always to follow out your highest impulses. 
Good impulses allowed to die may be tardy 
in reviving : good impulses fulfilled put you 
farther on the Way with every hour. Even 
such impulses as the first feeble urge felt by 
primitive man to keep himself clean, ful- 
filled, is uplifting, and lays the foundation for 
a higher impulse to be felt. Such motives as 
this we are accustomed to think of as being 
only material; nevertheless, it is the urge of 
the Spirit working through an instrument as 
yet not sufficiently perfected to register a 
higher impulse, and because of this Spirit 
within, one good impulse along any line, when 
fulfilled, will leave place for a higher to follow, 
and thus the Father draws us to Himself. 

None are left helpless, no matter from what 
point they have to start. Everyone has 
sufficient promptings toward the right to lead 
him eventually straight up to the full light if 
he would follow them; if in the battle with 
himself between right and wrong, he would 
always choose to follow the higher impulse. 
Here is the starting point in the matter of 
character building. The individual must 
choose his course. If he is to advance, he 

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must first aspire, and then decide to follow the 
path along which his aspiration leads, and all 
his decisions must be made with this in mind 
The responsibility of choice is an accompani- 
ment of his individual personality, and the 
pivotal point in the matter of the attainment 
of character is the realization that progress in 
the right direction begins with the individual 
choice of a right ideal, independent of the 
standards or motives of any or everyone else. 
Whether he will sacrifice his wrong impulses 
to his attainment of happiness, perfection and 
peace, or whether he will yield to them to his 
continual misery and blindness, his own 
choice determines. When he reaches an agree- 
ment with himself, and deliberately chooses 
to let go of any purpose of retaliation, no mat- 
ter what an offense against him may have 
been, the tide of the battle has turned in his 
favor, and he has conquered his arch enemy. 
Many lives seem to be a record of inter- 
mittent effort in the right direction, and 
wavering from the true course of progress 
apparently because they are not sure that it 
always "pays" to follow ideal standards of 
living; but if all would adopt the standard 
of right for the sake of right itself, regardless 

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of whether immediate results seemed pleasant 
or unpleasant, and heed the promptings that 
urge them onward and upward, which 
promptings are in every soul, they would not 
be alternately gaining and losing ground, 
resulting in such a slow and meagre progress. 
This it is to seek first the kingdom of God 
and his righteousness; in other words, to hold 
your friendship with God, and simple 
lightness in all ways as uppermost in your 
life, letting all your affairs adjust themselves 
in accordance with this standard, and not 
allowing any other interest — financial or 
otherwise — to hold the uppermost place and 
determine how much of rightness you can 
afford to employ in your living. 

It seems we must make real in actual daily 
life each successive step of our ideal of char- 
acter building, before we can get more light 
from within ourselves. If we listen to the 
urge of the Spirit within us, and always follow 
the highest light we have, we must. ascend 
continually; so do not sleep, do not stagnate. 

A high impulse may at times find through 
you but very imperfect or incomplete ex- 
pression, and perchance being misunder- 
stood, be met with rebuff on the part of 

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someone, tending to intimidate you from 
again giving expression to the highest prompt- 
ings within your soul; but do not be dis- 
heartened by such a result when you know 
your motive to be right, for every sincere 
effort to follow the urge of the Spirit consti- 
tutes a right act for you in the sight of the 
Father, no matter how misjudged by others. 
And remember the cause of most hurts lies 
no deeper than misunderstanding, and when 
this is done away, the universe will be seen to 
be one at heart. 

And do not make the mistake of suppress- 
ing the impulse of gladness and mirth, 
thinking it will hinder your spiritual develop- 
ment. Some appear to think that if they 
were to live close to God, they would of 
necessity be sad, denying themselves every 
pleasure they naturally feel inclined to enjoy. 
But this is very wrong. We are cautioned 
against this very thing in Malachi 2:13: 
"And this have ye done again, covering the 
altar of the Lord with tears, with weeping 
and with crying out, insomuch that he re- 
gardeth not the offering any more, or receiv- 
eth it with good will at your hand." 

You are a part of God, and sometimes you 

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want to laugh. Well, that is God wanting to 
express mirth through you. If God did not 
want to laugh, you would not want to, for 
God is all. God makes you want to sing and 
dance sometimes, too. To move the body 
rhythmically to music is a holy pleasure, 
provided it is done wholly unto God; that 
is, if you realize that God gives you the 
impulse to want to dance, and simply thank 
Him for the pleasure of it. We are told 
repeatedly in the Bible to rejoice in the Lord, 
and are exhorted specifically to praise Him 
in the dance; and in Phil. 4:4 we read: 
"Rejoice in the Lord alway: and again I say 
Rejoice.' 1 So do not think that being spir- 
itual necessitates being sad. Sadness is in- 
jurious to health; it is sinful. We are all 
sometimes sinful in this way, but we should 
strive to overcome this as much as any other 
fault, and should not associate sombre 
thoughts with worthy qualities, Life lived 
close to God is the happiest, most cheerful 
life that we can live. Of course there are 
states of mind higher, and more sacred and 
more enjoyable than those impelling to 
laughter, but that is no reason why we should 
suppress an impulse to laugh if we feel it. 

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The honest thinker will say at once that if 
God makes us want to laugh, then we will 
have to say that God makes us become angry 
too, and in a way he does; but think just 
what I said in regard to that before. I said 
that the urge of the Spirit is the original cause 
of everyone's doing what he does. But this 
urge has yet in many cases to come through 
minds but slightly developed — an incomplete 
understanding of things. It is not the ulti- 
mate purpose of the Spirit to make you 
become angry, but It has to let you become 
angry temporarily, while you are getting 
experience which will enable you to better 
comprehend all phases of the truth, because 
anger may be the only form of expression you 
have yet learned to give to an impulse which 
in itself is high, as in the example given of a 
sense of justice without tolerance. For let 
us get clearly in mind that creation is not 
yet completed; it is continually going on, 
and when the understanding is more highly 
developed, the same urge will not cause the 
same result. When we understand how we 
are all just in the process of making, it is an 
easier matter to forgive if someone does what 
at one time might have greatly offended us. 

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But when we stop to think that the reason 
people do wrong is that their understanding 
is not yet sufficiently enlightened to cause 
them to do otherwise, the impulse we feel 
toward them is not just to censure, but to 
help. 

To broaden your horizon and gain a more 
comprehensive outlook on life, get acquainted 
[With the literature of the New Thought, if 
ty&& are not already familiar with it. This 
$3f£w philosophy of life, or Truth, as it is 
sometimes called, affords an uplift that will 
change despondency to hope. But in saying 
this it is also necessary to mention the fact 
that there is much that may be found in 
book stores under this general caption which 
must be discriminated against as really harm- 
ful. " Prove all things ; hold fast that which 
is good." And among the diversity of 
opinions, beware of the error that the whole 
of life can be worked out on any two of the 
three planes of our existence— -physical, 
mental and spiritual. The writers who, 
while no less spiritual, are also rational, and 
recognize the divine and eternal purpose of 
our triune nature, will be found most helpful 
to read after; for a conception of the truth 

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no less broad than this is what must even- 
tually bring order out of the confusion that 
seems to exist in the minds of many authors, 
and teachers of the Truth. 

I have heard it said that one's intellect was 
a hindrance to his understanding of the 
Truth ! Of course the teacher who said this 
was anxious to help those seeking light, but 
did not in this case make a correct statement, 
and such mis-statements are likely to be 
very confusing and discouraging to some. 
The failure to realize the value and impor- 
tance of spiritual perception is a hindrance to 
your advancement in the Truth, for this 
transcends mere intellect, but even spiritual 
perception could not function independently 
of intellect. The two together might be 
likened in a w&y to the powerful telescope in 
the observatory — the intellect the bulky ma- 
chinery that holds the lens in place, and 
spiritual perception the lens itself — but it is 
evident that either one without the other 
would not be a perfect instrument. Our 
intellect is of God just as much as any other 
part of us, and was given to us to use. The 
point is to use it to the highest purpose, and 
develop spiritual perception by going at times 

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into the Silence, quieting the physical senses 
as far as possible, and letting the mind retire 
to the stillness within. Then listen to be 
taught of the Spirit concerning the truth of 
life, and carry this knowledge back to the 
outer consciousness, until more and more the 
whole mind becomes illumined by the light 
within. Thus grows the sum of our knowl- 
edge of the Truth— the Truth which trans- 
forms men — the Truth (facts) which we shall 
know that will make us free. 

And do not fail to study the Bible for its 
deeper meaning. Your eyes will surely be 
opened, and }^ou will realize as never before 
how plainly God is speaking to his children 
through this wonderful Book. This is where 
my beloved fellows of the liberal faith have 
thus far fallen short. In their interpretation 
of the Bible they have done nobly in defend- 
ing the name of God from infamy, and one 
would think that glorious Credo a compen- 
dium of Holy Writ, but they have missed the 
pulse of life that makes alive those pages, in 
having failed to. listen for the heart that 
throbs beneath the symbols. 

If people would but realize that what Jesus 
taught us is the way to transform this life, 

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making it continuous and eternal, they would 
get the full benefit of his teachings; and all 
the years of man's life after he has reached 
a certain age would not be wasted, and effort 
for continued growth, attainment and service 
paralyzed by the thought of approaching 
old age and death, instead of the gradual 
transformation towards the spiritual body 
and the paradise awaiting him, which he 
should willingly forego until his services to 
those of earth who are following on, and 
earth's service to him is complete. 

No one who has faith in the glories of the 
heavenly life would wish to linger indefinitely 
on earth in age and decrepitude. Far better 
lay down the worn out instrument and be 
rid of it under such conditions. Indeed a 
little short-sighted selfishness might cause us 
to want to depart in early life to that fair 
home, leaving behind the toil and stress of 
earth. But we all have lessons that must be 
mastered on this earth plane, and we may as 
well continue to apply ourselves to the work 
now until we have finished it. More than 
this, the world needs to be made over. 
People on earth need all the help that can 
come to them from those who have grown 

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wise, and capable of giving saving help ; and 
the ability to retain youth and vigor while 
knowledge and experience valuable to man- 
kind are accumulated year after year by 
benefactors of the race, instead of such pur- 
suits and services being cut short by death, 
can readily be seen. This, far more than the 
beautiful thought of the continuity of life, is 
the real value of this knowledge. 

Eternal life and abundant happiness and 
prosperity are promised as the blessings of 
the covenant, to which Jesus tells us we 
shall attain by keeping his saying. In other 
words, keeping Jesus' saying — earnestly try- 
ing to practice his teachings, not just knowing 
them — will cause us to be able to obtain the' 
blessings of the covenant through the only 
way which insures them in full measure ; that 
is, the possession of the spiritual power to 
recognize the soul of which one's soul is a 
part. 

Until men realize that their bodies and all 
their bodily functions are holy, and to be 
used as "HOLINESS UNTO THE LORD" 
(LAW), they will continue to lay down the 
physical body after a certain number of years, 
and if they have not worked out all of life's 

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lessons sufficiently well to satisfy the Spirit 
within them, they will reincarnate and come 
back to earth to work out their experience in 
matter until they have conquered it — 
brought it into subjection to the Spirit. But 
as the spiritual senses of individuals become 
sufficiently developed for them to be re- 
united with their soul complements, their 
bodies may live in continual youth, becom- 
ing lighter and less burdensome, eventually 
drawing nourishment from the air, and 
warmed by their own electrical vitality, as 
they are gradually released from heavy phys- 
ical material and approach nearer to the 
spiritual body, the vibratory rate of which 
makes its more etherial substance invisible to 
the physical eye. But the development of 
the spiritual powers through altruistic love 
must come first, simply because it is only by 
means of them that we can obtain this bless- 
ing. This is wherein God is the Lord (Good 
is the Law). God tells us that every knee 
shall bow, and every tongue confess, and with 
this new understanding of the truth, it is as 
if He had added the final Q.E.D. to the 
proposition which He has been demonstrating 
through all time. 

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Ere this the thought has doubtless been 
in the minds of many of my sisters: "What 
assurance can I have that my mate is living 
in the world today?" This, however, is a 
question that no one can answer definitely 
for you, and there is no way for you to 
answer it until you may be drawn to that 
mate and the right spiritual conditions give 
rise to the necessary knowledge. Then you 
'will know, and will know that you know. 
Your mate may not be living. He may have 
passed on before you; but even if for this 
cause, or any cause whatsoever, the happiness 
of perfect companionship be deferred to the 
spiritual state of existence, is it not a great 
deal to know that it awaits you somewhere 
in your ascending career when all conditions 
are right? On the other hand, there is no 
more reason to think that one's mate is not 
living than that he is. The probabilities are 
that most of the people alive today could be 
truly mated if they were sufficiently developed 
spiritually to recognize each other; but this 
great problem can only be worked out by 
individual devotion to duty and high ideals. 
To be right in all ways should be our first 
concern, and only through our efforts to this 

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end are we lifted above the physical and men- 
tal, to the spiritual heights where the Law 
works unobstructed and adjusts this relation 
as originally planned, whether it be for us in 
this life or after we have passed out of this body . 

When all conditions are right there will be 
evidence which will convince you beyond any 
doubt, for it will be more conclusive than 
the customary feeling of fondness for another 
which is usually accepted as sufficient ground 
for marriage. Never proceed on the sup- 
position that someone is your mate until all 
doubt has been removed by this proof. With 
it will come "rest unto your soul' '—its tire- 
less quest rewarded — -and you would be will- 
ing on the strength of this assurance to pass 
cheerfully this way alone, if for any cause 
this might be necessary, rather than be united 
with any other. 

Beyond this I may not tell you. If I did 
it would fail to be a sign unto you. Or, to 
state it differently, it would disqualify you 
for recognizing this evidence from the Spirit. 
Further, things of such inviolably sacred 
nature may not be bandied about in print. 
This, when it comes, will reveal to you what 
I mean by the soul of the Name. 

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Do not be tempted foolishly to seek advice 
from fortune-tellers or mind-readers, or even 
friends; for this assurance you may have 
that when all conditions are right, every 
lingering doubt will be removed through 
your own interior powers, and depending on 
any source of information except your own 
awakened spiritual senses, will only delay 
your development. No power outside of 
yourself can give you correct information in 
regard to this matter. It will come to you 
directly from the Spirit if the one in question 
is your mate, and you walk close enough to 
God to understand his thought. 

So do not seek a proof, for it will come all 
unsought under the right conditions. Relieve 
your mind of it entirely; be grateful that 
God has made you for such happiness, and 
go about your living with the definite assur- 
ance that it is worth while to be your highest 
self under every circumstance. And be 
cheered by the thought that every battle 
fought and won in your own soul has helped 
some other one, perhaps tired and disheart- 
ened, also to win; for thus is all the world 
knitted together by "the penetrating, radiating 
power of thought. 

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There should be men whose hearts are 
pure enough and courage strong enough to 
unify and teach this truth, with precept 
emphasizing the necessity for scrupulous per- 
sonal examination, and self reliance in the 
matter of spiritual advancement, for this is 
the gospel that must be preached in all the 
world to every creature. But let any such 
beware lest they make known the finished 
mystery without emphatic warning to all 
men; for should the mass of men who might 
be incapable of appreciating the spiritual 
purport of this message — whose stage of 
development enables them to understand only 
the physical element of this function — think 
that because the sex power is thus approved 
of God, that it means less of self control 
instead of more, and abandon themselves to 
the thought of the physical, even in one- 
instance of cohabitation, they would, because 
of the capacity of the masculine body, 
surely bring upon themselves the torments 
spoken of in Revelation IX, which stands 
as a warning for safe-guard against the 
revealing of this truth of which I speak. 
The language is figurative, but the physical 
torment (through the power of thought to 

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effect chemical change in physical tissue) 
would be real. 

Do not think Revelation to be merely an 
altered Jewish apocalypse, but hear the word 
as written: "I Jesus have sent mine angel 
to testify unto you these things in the 
churches (avenues of approach to God, 
whether individual or universal). I am the 
root and the offspring of David, and the 
bright and morning star." Revelation is a 
disclosing of the divine mysteries, and a 
prophecy written after Jesus' time — a store- 
house of information which only the "key of 
the house of David" will unlock. It is a 
masterpiece of symbolism, some of its most 
terrorizing imagery being simply statements 
of inspiring truths. However, the reference 
to the 9th chapter should be heeded as I 
have cautioned you. I beg each man in- 
dividually not to think this merely speculation, 
nor that I am surely cautioning some one 
else. I mean every man. I HAVE WARNED 
YOU. And let each reader make it his 
personal care to communicate no discon- 
nected part of this information to anyone 
without the accompanying warning I have 
given. 

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The curtain thus drawn aside, affords a 
long look ahead. We see God's plan for the 
continuity of life, and a paradise of happiness 
eventually for every soul; we see the hopes 
and aspirations of youth, and the desire for 
the cultivation of our God-given faculties not 
abandoned in discouragement if unfulfilled 
in early years, but enriched and ennobled 
by experience and increasing knowledge of 
the Truth, and inspired by the thought of 
opportunity for continuous development 
along all lines, being realized in greater meas- 
ure with the added years. For we find the 
road leads not to the crest of the hill for 
half the way, and then dow r n on the other 
side, but is an ever ascending path that 
grows brighter and brighter unto the perfect 
day, when "The kingdoms of this world are 
become the kingdoms of our Lord, and of his 
Christ/ ' 

It is of perfected earthly conditions that 
the vision is related in Revelation XXI, 
when this tabernacle of God will be with men. 
Notice it is to be with men, not referring to a 
state of existence with which we are not 
familiar, and the promise is that there shall 
be no more death. The promises have been 

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preserved for us, secure against attack, 
through our long night of misunderstanding; 
let us now go forth into the glad morning of 
the new day just dawning, cheered and re- 
freshed by the reasonableness of the hope for 
conditions of life and happiness on this earth 
that have hitherto been thought too ideal to 
be made real. 

1 'And I heard a great voice out of heaven 
saying, Behold, the tabernacle of God is with 
men, and he will dwell with them, and they 
shall be his people, and God himself shall be 
with them and be their God. And God shall 
wipe away all tears from their eyes; and 
there shall be no more death, neither sorrow 
nor crying, neither shall there be any more 
pain : for the former things are passed away. ' ' 

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